{"id":6377,"date":"2016-09-25T16:58:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T16:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/harm-reduction-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T19:26:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T18:26:30","slug":"harm-reduction-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/harm-reduction-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Harm Reduction in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We present three videos about what the world can learn from harm reduction in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>When we visited Australia to attend the International AIDS Conference last year, we created a lot of footage we couldn&#8217;t edit immediately because of other work. This summer, we had some time to work on this footage, and produced three videos highlighting different aspects of harm reduction in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first video features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salvationarmy.org.au\/en\/Find-Us\/Victoria\/CrisisServices\/Program-Information\/Health-Services\/\">Access Health<\/a>, an integrated care centre run by the Salvation Army in Melbourne. It provides a wide range of services for marginalised drug users and sex workers, ranging from sterile injecting equipment to training, shelter, and social care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xod_uASO-Oc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second film is based on an interview with Vanda Hamilton, a lawyer at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skls.org.au\/\">St. Kilda Legal Service<\/a>, an organisation which assists people who use drugs to exercise their rights and fight discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sNa701XICGY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third video is a short interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alex_Wodak\">Dr. Alex Wodak<\/a>, a pioneer and leading expert on harm reduction, who explained to us what the world can learn from the Australian example of harm reduction policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/akYGi3DKtl8\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please watch these videos and share them widely!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takacs Istvan Gabor and Peter Sarosi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We present three videos about what the world can learn from harm reduction in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1005,"featured_media":6345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2900,2894],"tags":[],"countries":[2708],"section":[],"video-author":[2921],"drug":[],"archive":[3222],"video-series":[3289],"class_list":["post-6377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-video-database","countries-australia-en","video-author-drugreporter","archive-harm-reduction","video-series-drugreporter-documentaries"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2016\/09\/austr.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"P\u00e9ter S\u00e1rosi","author_link":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/author\/sarosip-2\/"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin  - 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