Physicians for Human Rights Harm Reduction Initiative

PHR Health Action AIDS IDU Harm Reduction Program

What does IDU mean?

HIV Exploding among IDUs

What is Harm Reduction?

Harm Reduction: A Definition

Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies that reduce negative consequences of drug use, incorporating a spectrum of strategies from safer use, to managed use to abstinence. Harm reduction strategies meet drug users "where they're at," addressing conditions of use along with the use itself.

The Harm Reduction Coalition, New York City

Harm Reduction Alternatives (Prevention Works!) Don’t use drugs If you use drugs, get into treatment If you can’t use a new set for each shot, don’t share anything If you share, disinfect with bleach and water If you can’t or aren’t ready for treatment, don’t inject If you inject drugs, use a new sterile syringe and needle for each shot

Harm Reduction in Practice: Needle & Syringe Programs

PHR IDU Harm Reduction Program

Advocates for the United States Government’s adoption and implementation of HIV prevention, care, and treatment policies that are evidence-based, practical, rights-based, and appropriate for injecting drug users

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