Bangladesh Country Advocacy Brief Injecting Drug Use and HIV

The Bangladesh Country Advocacy Brief was developed by ICDDR,B, UNODC and UNAIDS in 2009.
 
Summary of the Call to Action is as follows:

• Use the benefit of time to avert a large scale epidemic by prioritising HIV prevention, treatment and care interventions for people who inject drugs – Bangladesh is one of the few countries that still has this opportunity to avert an expanding epidemic by focusing interventions among the most-at-risk populations
• Operationalise all elements of the National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS, including substitution treatment for people who inject drugs
• Pilot and rapidly scale up Oral Substitution Treatment (OST) and expand coverage of needle and syringe program to reach critical coverage of both men and women who inject drugs
• Revise existing policies and laws to provide comprehensive harm reduction service delivery
• Involve people who inject drugs in the response and addressing stigma and discrimination associated with HIV and drug use
• Ensure continuation of HIV surveillance system

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