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99 per cent of intravenous drug users lack access to health, ‘social services with dignity’ says UNAIDS chief

99 per cent of intravenous drug users lack access to health, ‘social services with dignity’ says UNAIDS chief

UN News - "Despite a decline in new HIV infections globally, a UN report launched on Wednesday highlights that nearly all people who inject drugs live in countries that do not provide suitable harm-reduction service coverage, meaning they are denied adequate access to essential health services.

(...) The new UNAIDS report, Health, rights and drugs: harm reduction, decriminalization and zero discrimination for people who use drugs, shows that of the 10.6 million who injected drugs in 2016, more than half were living with hepatitis C and one-in-eight with HIV." (Photo: UN News)

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