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Women's Harm Reduction International Network (WHRIN) is founded June 02, 2009 Womens' Harm Reduction Network (WHRIN) is a new global platform to reduce the harms associated with drug use by women and to develop an enabling environment for the implementation and expansion of harm reduction resources for women.
It is known that a significant percentage (ranging from at least 25% up to nearly half depending on country/region) of all people who inject drugs in the world are women. Female drug users tend to be even less visible than their male counterparts, but relative visibility does not properly account for the fact that research, services, guidelines, training programs and data collection are generally mainstreamed into a male context.
The objective of WHRIN is to provide a forum to discuss the needs of and challenges faced by women who use drugs and advocate for national, regional and international bodies to adopt and implement policies and programmes which promote and support harm reduction interventions for women and girls.
To register to the group, go to www.talkingdrugs.org/user/register. Add your comment |
| Harm reduction | Drug policy | Opioid substitution therapy |
| Hepatitis C | Prisons | HIV |
| Overdose | Special groups | Stigma & discrimination |
