Global Commission partners with French and Swiss organizations to raise awareness on the war on drugs and the Hepatitis C viral time bomb.
In late October, French organizations working on health and drug policy – Médecins du Monde, ASUD, the GREA, the Fédération addiction, the AFR and SOS Hépatites – supported commissioner Ruth Dreifuss, former president of Switzerland, and commissioner Michel Kazatchkine, UNSG’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, for the launch of the French version of the GCDP report: L’impact négatif de « la guerre contre la drogue » sur la santé publique. L’épidémie cachée d’hépatite C. (The negative impacts of the War on Drugs on public Health: The Hidden Hepatitis C Epidemic).
The report presented in Paris illustrates how repressive drug policies fuel the Hepatitis C epidemic among people who use drugs and their partners. The Global Commission on Drug Policy reinforced the demand for ending the criminalization and incarceration of non-violent drug users and the extension of harm reduction programs to prevent the spread of Hepatitis C and other diseases. The international version of the document was presented in Geneva in June 2013.
Watch the video from the Paris event.
Ruth Dreifuss speaks to the public
Comissioners Ruth Dreifuss and Michel Kazatchkine
The public
Comissioners Ruth Dreifuss and Michel Kazatchkine