Evan Wood, a physician and associate professor of medicine at UBC and the co-director of the Urban Health Research Initiative at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, writes about the Vienna Declaration in the Los Angeles Times.
“There was sobering news at the 18th International AIDS Conference, including stark evidence of how the HIV epidemic is raging unchecked among some populations of illicit drug users.
“In response to these alarming statistics, this year’s conference endorsed as its official statement the Vienna Declaration, a document I helped draft to draw widespread attention to how the U.S.-led war on drugs has played a central role in driving the HIV epidemic around the world.”
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