The Cost of Complacency: A Harm Reduction Funding Crisis
Harm Reduction International released its annual report exploring the state of harm reduction funding in low- and middle-income countries, using information collected from harm reduction donors and a desk review of literature and data on domestic funding.
The findings show that, despite many high-level political commitments, we are no closer to achieving a sustainable harm reduction response.
Governments have committed to ending AIDS and tuberculosis, eliminating viral hepatitis and providing universal access to healthcare by 2030. These goals cannot be reached while prevention programmes for key populations, such as people who use drugs, continue to be underfunded. Furthermore, any progress achieved by 2030 is unlikely to be sustainable without greater investment in community-led programmes and law and policy reform.