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Preventing HIV/AIDS among women who use drugs in north eastern India

Photo: Nazia Erum/UNDP India

UNODC, together with UNAIDS, UNICEF and UNDP, has established a project to reduce the risk and impact of HIV/AIDS in the north east region of India, an ethnically diverse area bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh. Building on years of experience on similar efforts, this project aims to help local communities prevent the spread of HIV through unsafe injecting drug use, especially among vulnerable populations -of which women represent a large part.[Read More]

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UNODC honours colleagues killed in Somalia

Photo: UNIS Vienna

At an open-air service held in Memorial Plaza at the Vienna International Centre (VIC), family, friends, colleagues and country representatives paid a dignified and moving tribute to Clément Gorrissen and Simon Davis who were killed in Puntland, Somalia on 7 April.[Read More]

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A tribute to our fallen colleagues

Photo: UNODC

On Monday 7 April, two colleagues working for UNODC, Clément Gorrissen, aged 28, and Simon Davis, aged 57, were cruelly killed in an attack by an unidentified gunman in Puntland, Somalia. The two men, who often worked together, were on mission in Somalia to offer technical advice and to help build local capacities in the specialised field of illicit money flows.[Read More]

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