亚洲毒品使用者网络（ANPUD）新闻发布
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2009年10月21日
亚洲吸毒者联合起来，建立区域组织
2009年10月16日和17日，来自九个不同国家的超过二十五位吸毒者在曼谷开会，以便定稿《亚洲毒品使用者网络（ANPUD）章程》，并且为第一个区域吸毒者网络选举指导委员会。根据吸毒者有意义地参与（MIPUD）的原则，亚洲毒品使用者网络由吸毒者建立，目的是倡导权利和统一全亚洲吸毒者群体的发言。亚洲毒品使用者在整个亚洲地区有超过150个成员，他们正在合作影响对他们的生活有影响的决定。
尽管亚洲地区是全世界吸毒者数量最多的地区，也获得了针具和注射器交换项目及鸦片替代治疗等预防HIV和丙肝传播的有效服务，但亚洲地区是全球减低危害服务覆盖率最低的地区。让人们能够支付得起的HIV和丙肝预防、治疗、护理和支持的缺乏，主要是由与吸毒有关的污名和歧视导致的。
Jimmy Dorabjee是亚洲毒品使用者网络发展过程中重要的指导者，他解释了亚洲毒品使用者网络的存在理由："在亚洲各国，吸毒者都受到歧视，被认为是罪犯，并且受到虐待。我们的人权受到侵犯，在能够让我们活下去的医疗保健服务方面，我们得到的很少。如果政府看不见吸毒者，听不到我们的声音，也不跟我们交谈，他们就会继续忽视我们。"
通过组建亚洲毒品使用者网络，亚洲的吸毒者将能够合作吸引有关组织和政策制订者参与亚洲应对HIV和吸毒的工作。亚洲毒品使用者网络的存在，对改进影响吸毒者群体生活的政策和服务的工作至关重要，还能够为加强国家应对能力和建设吸毒者网络贡献专门技术、资源和同伴支持。亚洲毒品使用者网络还将其倡导工作集中于提高吸毒者的生活质量，协调政策，去罪化，获得以证据为基础、由当地推动的减低危害服务，HIV预防和治疗服务，以及增加亚洲吸毒者获得丙肝治疗的机会。
联合国艾滋病规划署区域支持小组（UNAIDS Regional Support Team）主任普拉萨达·拉奥（Prasada Rao）博士谈到急需与吸毒者网络合作，并且向亚洲毒品使用者网络提供了支持，他说："对联合国艾滋病规划署来说，吸毒者中的HIV预防工作是全球重点项目。我很高兴今天能够来到这里看到亚洲毒品使用者网络形成组织，它将会在亚洲HIV应对工作中扮演重要角色。重要的是我们能够更加有效地把亚洲吸毒者的声音带到在整个亚洲扩大HIV预防服务的工作中。"
2009年12月31日之前，亚洲毒品使用者网络将正式登记为一个组织。同时将批准章程和管理文件。还将组成一个六名代表的临时指导委员会，马来西亚的Mohamad Firdaus (Apit)、柬埔寨的Bun Bong、尼泊尔的Ekta Thapa Mahat、印度尼西亚的Hadi Yusfian、缅甸的Myo Kyaw Lynn (Tom)和印度尼西亚的Yvonne Sibuea是当选代表。
临时指导委员会得到技术支持小组的支持，今后几个月中，技术支持小组将辅导指导委员会的成员。
会议结束时，Ekta很骄傲能够把一些具体的东西带回尼泊尔："我回家之后要负责与大约250名在全国积极倡导更好服务的吸毒者分享经验。合作和帮助亚洲吸毒者进行能力建设对我们来说是一条伟大的道路。"
澳大利亚非法和注射吸毒者联盟（Australian Illicit and Injecting Drug Users League，AIVL）区域合作伙伴项目管理者Ele Morrison说："会议的结果超出了我的预期。与会者为自己制订了宏伟的目标，他们在短短两天时间里就为建立这一新组织做了许事多。吸毒者拥有完全产权的基础就在这里。"这次会议由吸毒者组织，为了吸毒者，从世界卫生组织（WHO）、联合国区域工作组（United Nations Regional Task Force）和澳大利亚非法和注射吸毒者联盟那里获得资金支持。
更多信息请联系Ekta：Abhiyan06@gmail.com / +977-98411 63331 或Jimmy Dorabjee： Jimmyd@burnet.edu.au / +61-419 354892。
21 October 2009
Asian drug users unite to form regional organization
Over twenty-five drug users from nine different countries met in Bangkok on 16th and 17th October 2009 to finalize the Asian Network of People who Use Drugs (ANPUD) Constitution and elect a Steering Committee for the first regional network of people who use drugs. Based on the principles of Meaningful Involvement of People who Use Drugs (MIPUD), ANPUD has been setup by people who use drugs to advocate for the rights and unify the voices of their communities across Asia. ANPUD has over 150 members throughout the Asia region who are collaborating to influence decisions that affect their lives.
Despite being the region with the largest number of people using drugs in the world, access to effective services such as needle and syringe exchange programs and opioid substitution therapy to prevent HIV and hepatitis C transmission, the Asia region has the lowest coverage of harm reduction services across the globe. The lack of affordable HIV and HCV prevention, treatment, care and support services is largely driven by the stigma and discrimination associated with drug use.
Jimmy Dorabjee, a key guiding figure in ANPUD's development, explained the raison d'etre for ANPUD: "People who use drugs are stigmatized, criminalized and abused in every country in Asia. Our human rights are violated and we have little in the way of health services to stay alive. If governments do not see people who use drugs, hear us and talk to us, they will continue to ignore us."
By forming ANPUD, people who use drugs in Asia will be able to work together to engage organizations and policymakers involved in the Asian response to HIV and drug use. ANPUD's existence is critical to efforts to improve policies and services that affect the lives of drug using communities, and can contribute expertise, resources and peer support to strengthen national responses and build drug user networks. ANPUD will also focus its advocacy efforts on improving the quality of lives for people who use drugs, harmonization of policies, decriminalization, access to evidence-based, locally-driven harm reduction services, HIV prevention and treatment services and increased access to hepatitis C treatment for drug users in Asia.
The Director of the UNAIDS Regional Support Team, Dr. Prasada Rao, spoke of the urgent need to engage with drug user networks and offered his support to ANPUD, saying that "for UNAIDS, HIV prevention among drug users is a key priority at the global level. I am very pleased today to be here to see ANPUD being shaped into an organization that will play a key role in Asia's HIV response. It is critical that we are able to more effectively involve the voices of Asian people who use drugs in the scaling up of HIV prevention services across Asia."
By 31st December 2009, ANPUD will be officially registered as an organization. In the meantime, the constitution and governance documents have been approved. An interim Steering Committee composed of six representatives was formed, with Mohamad Firdaus (Apit) from Malaysia, Bun Bong from Cambodia, Ekta Thapa Mahat from Nepal, Hadi Yusfian from Indonesia, Myo Kyaw Lynn (Tom) from Myanmar and Yvonne Sibuea from Indonesia as elected representatives.
The Steering Committee is supported by a Technical Support Team who will mentor the members of the Steering Committee over the next few months.
At the end of the meeting, Ekta was proud to be taking back something concrete to Nepal: "When I go back home, I am now responsible for sharing the experiences with the 250 or so drug users who are actively advocating for better services at the national level. It will be a great way for us to work together and help build the capacity of people who use drugs in Asia."
Ele Morrison, Program Manager, Regional Partnership project, of Australian Illicit and Injecting Drug Users League (AIVL), said that "the results of the meeting exceeded my expectations. The participants set ambitious goals for themselves and they have achieved a lot in just two days to setup this new organization. The building blocks for genuine ownership by people who use drugs is definitely there." This meeting was organized by drug users, for drug users, with financial support from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the United Nations Regional Task Force and AIVL.
For more information, please contact Ekta at Abhiyan06@gmail.com / +977-98411 63331 or Jimmy Dorabjee at Jimmyd@burnet.edu.au / +61-419 354892.
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