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IAS Members’ Meeting: ’None Left Behind’ – the IAS’s Work with Key Affected Populations

IAS Members’ Meeting: ’None Left Behind’ – the IAS’s Work with Key Affected Populations. How drug policies based on prohibition law enforcement fuel the HIV and HCV epidemics Michel Kazatchkine UN Secretary General Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia;

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IAS Members’ Meeting: ’None Left Behind’ – the IAS’s Work with Key Affected Populations

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  1. IAS Members’ Meeting:’None Left Behind’ – the IAS’s Work with Key Affected Populations How drug policies based on prohibition law enforcement fuel the HIV and HCV epidemics Michel Kazatchkine UN Secretary General Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Commissioner, Global Commission on Drug Policy

  2. Фото: Hans Jürgen Burkard Drug user awaits interrogation, Tajikistan Photo; Hans Jurgen Burkhart

  3. Science and policy • Science is a fundamental pillar of knowledge-based societies • Science can help provide the evidence base for sound public policy and evaluate policy effectiveness • The dialogue between science and policy is never straight forward

  4. Science and policy • Scientists must learn to use the established communications channels for providing policy advice more effectively and be less aloof and perhaps less arrogant • Policy makers must be receptive to scientific advice , even when this advice is uncomfortable • For the science and policy relationship to work, policy makers have to challenge science to deliver on their public investment

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