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Whose personal is more political: Women who use drugs and the feminist movement

March 15, 2019
Written by Judy Chang, Executive Director, International Network of People Who Inject Drugs (INPUD). Judy Chang is a member of the LINKAGES Advisory Board. "In a marketplace of experiences, the privileged inevitably have more platforms from which to narrate, and... Continue Reading

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Mutual learning, mutual success: the benefits of building the collective capacity of members of key populations

March 15, 2017
Written by Alice Olawo,  Senior Program Officer, LINKAGES Kenya  Harmful gender norms and inequalities increase violence and HIV risk while limiting the use of HIV services by members of key populations (men who have sex with men [MSM], transgender people, people... Continue Reading

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Reducing Gender-Based Violence Against Women Who use Drugs: The Right to be Free

December 7, 2016
Written by Judy Chang, Board Member, International Network of People who use Drugs Globally, it is estimated that one out of three women experiences gender-based violence (GBV) in her lifetime. Data on women who use drugs and their experiences of violence... Continue Reading

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Key Population Hero: Human rights for drug users in Nepal

November 2, 2016
Written by Anjay Kumar, drug user activist in Nepal  There were an estimated 52,174 people who inject drugs (PWID) in Nepal in 2013 with an annual growth rate of 11.36% (Government of Nepal Ministry of Home Affairs).1 Drug use in Nepal is... Continue Reading

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There is no passion to be found in playing small

December 4, 2015
Written by Kevin Osborne, Project Director of LINKAGES LINKAGES burst into the global scene with big and bold goals but no one imagined in its second year LINKAGES would be this big or this bold.  We did not anticipate this... Continue Reading

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People who inject drugs as equal partners in finding solutions

June 15, 2015
Written by Jennifer Hegle, Senior Program Manager, LINKAGES and Catherine Todd, Scientist at FHI 360 This month, The Lancet published an open letter to Indonesian President Joko Widodo from a group of prominent Indonesian academics and experts decrying their country’s... Continue Reading

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Introducing the LINKAGES Blog: Making Services Meaningful for Key Populations

January 20, 2015
Photo Credit: © Nell Freeman for the Alliance. Subject: Denis Nzokia, Religious Relations Assistant at the LGBT group GALCK. He is one of Kenya’s few openly gay activists. Written by Kevin Osborne, Project Director of LINKAGES With this post, I am... Continue Reading

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