Manual for Reducing Drug Related Harm in Asia

Of all the epidemics of HIV (the ‘AIDS virus’) among the different groups in the community whose behaviours put them at risk, none is more rapid or devastating than epidemics among people who inject drugs. But at the same time, nowhere in the field of AIDS prevention are there such dazzling success stories than with prevention of HIV among injecting drug users.

This Manual grew out of the combined efforts of many people battling in Asia to stop HIV. It contains the accumulated experience of over decade of attempts to change policy and implement programs to stop this devastating scourge, collected over several years from many countries in Asia.