第9届亚太地区艾滋病国际代表大会（ICAAP9）

国际减害发展项目（IHRD）是开放社会研究所下属的公共卫生项目的一部分，旨在降低与注射毒品相关的HIV病毒和其他危害，推动减少对非法毒品使用者的歧视，保护他们的人权。自1995年，IHRD在中欧、东欧和亚洲支持了两百多个项目，他们的行动哲学是：那些无法或不愿放弃使用毒品的人可以对保护他们及其他人的健康产生正面的影响。

 自2001年，IHRD将工作重点依次放在：改进针头交换、毒品依赖型治疗和HIV治疗的可获得性和质量；改革歧视性政策和实践；增加毒品使用者和HIV感染者参与制定影响他们生活的政策。

什么是减害？

减害是减少与使用毒品相关的个人和社会危害--特别是HIV感染危险--的一种注重实效的和人文主义方法，其目的在于通过保护毒品使用者的尊严、人性和人权的方法减轻与毒品使用相关的问题。

IHRD的英文网站地址为http://www.soros.org/initiatives/health/focus/ihrd/about。

Another organization that will be participating at ICAAP IX is the Open Society Institute's International Harm Reduction Development Program.

The International Harm Reduction Development Program (IHRD), part of the Open Society Institute's Public Health Program, works to reduce HIV and other harms related to injecting drug use and to press for policies that reduce stigmatization of illicit drug users and protect their human rights.  Since 1995 IHRD has supported more than 200 programs in the Central and Eastern Europe and Asia, and bases its activities on the philosophy that people unable or unwilling to abstain from drug use can make positive changes to protect their health and the health of others.

Since 2001, IHRD has prioritized advocacy to: expand availability and quality of needle exchange, drug dependence treatment, and treatment for HIV; reform discriminatory policies and practices; and increase the participation of people who use drugs and those living with HIV in shaping policies that affect their lives.

What is Harm Reduction?

Harm reduction is a pragmatic and humanistic approach to diminish the individual and social harms associated with drug use, especially the risk of HIV infection.  It seeks to lessen the problems associated with drug use through methodologies that safeguard the dignity, humanity and human rights of people who use drugs.

To view IHRD's website in English, please visit:  http://www.soros.org/initiatives/health/focus/ihrd/about