Sponsored by the Levi Strauss Foundation, this project began in November 2010 with the aim of contributing to the reduction of stigma and discrimination faced by drug users in Argentina. It is focused on legislative and socio-sanitary policies changes that help banish the dominant representation that relates drug users with crime and violence, and encourage that they be considered individuals with rights. Its objectives are: To promote the enactment of bills of Mental Health and the creation of the National [...]
Approved by the Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (VNGOC), its objectives are to improve the mechanisms for collaboration between NGOs and government agencies to develop drug policies. Project started in October 2010 and ended in February 2011. Tags: Committee of Vienna, drugs, HIV, AIDS, HIV
Financed by the Pan American Health Organization, it took place between October 2009 and April 2010. In conjunction with Dr. Marcus Day (Caribbean Drug & Alcohol Research Institute), Intercambios carried out a consultancy with the objective of developing a status report on HIV / AIDS and drug use in Latin America and the Caribbean, adapting and translating the OMS document “Setting targets for Harm Reduction programs ” into Spanish, and preparing a proposal for the mobilization of funds for the [...]
With support of the Foundation Open Society Institute, this took place from July 2009 to June 2011. Its objectives included the promotion of reforms in drug policy, changes in legislation and the construction of a Latin American platform supporting these initiatives. Its main achievements at a national level are linked to progress in the parliamentary discussion of proposed legislative reforms, and greater emphasis on public policy aspects of health and human rights. At the regional level, strengthening partnerships with government [...]
With support of the Foundation Open Society Institute, this project was executed between August 2008 and July 2009, and it aimed to sustain and expand activities that contribute to strengthening drug policy alternatives. One of its principal achievements was to promote consensus among governmental and non-governmental organizations on the necessity of revising drug policies in the country. Tags: Argentina, drugs, harm reduction
Financed by the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA), this project took place between September 2007 and August 2008. Intercambios developed and maintained the Latin American chapter of a global project of IHRA which proposes monitoring the global situation of harm reduction. Tags: Latin America, drugs, harm reduction
Between March 2007 and July 2008, “Beyond 2008″ was developed, a project of Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (VNGOC), in which the objective was to collect information on experiences and ideas of NGOs worldwide as a contribution to the revision of the progress of the goals set by the Special Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations on Drugs 1998 (UNGASS). Intercambios, together with Youth Integration Centers of Mexico and RISE Life Management Services of Jamaica, was the [...]
With support from the Fund for Reform of Drug Policy of the Tides Foundation in New York, this took place from February 2005 until February 2006 with the objective of promoting the sharing, collaboration and mutual cooperation among activists of diverse regions, aimed at the integration of networks and working groups. The main lesson learned has been the synergy brought by the alliances and coordination and that only a joint effort of the international movement for the reform of drug [...]
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