Correlation European Harm Reduction Network

09/10/2026

📢 Meet our speaker: Swathi Srinivasan

🎙️ We are honoured to welcome Swathi Srinivasan (PhD Candidate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) as our first speaker for our upcoming Shaping Spaces, Shaping Services: Designing Drug Consumption Rooms Webinar.

☝️ Register for the webinar and engage in the conversation on how interior and spatial design can influence the effectiveness, accessibility, and client experience of drug consumption rooms (DCRs).

📅 Tuesday, October 27th 2026, 15:00-16:30 CEST

🔗 Learn more here:
https://buff.ly/uX5GPrN

06/10/2026

📢 The initiative HIV Outcomes recently published the vulnerability toolkit. It looks at how social, structural and systemic barriers can place people living with HIV in situations of vulnerability with a lack of high quality care leading to a reduced quality of life.

🔍️ Our Head of Research Rafaela Rigoni contributed to the development of the toolkit as part of an expert group. They brought perspectives and evidence from our network and our civil society-led monitoring, highlighting the realities and barriers experienced by people who use drugs and other underserved communities across Europe.

☝️ The toolkit provides recommendations for policymakers, healthcare professionals and communities to address systemic barriers and strengthen equitable, person-centred HIV care.

🔗 Explore the toolkit here:

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01/10/2026

🚨 Webinar Alert 🚨

We are proud to announce our next webinar 'Shaping Spaces, Shaping Services: Designing Drug Consumption Rooms'. Join this webinar to explore how interior and spatial design can influence the effectiveness, accessibility, and client experience of drug consumption rooms.

🎙️ Announcing our four speakers sharing their perspectives:

Swathi Srinivasan | PhD candidate | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 🇺🇸
Claire O’Neil | Senior Officer for Architecture and Design | Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Dirk Schäffer | Head of the Department “Drugs and Prison” | Deutsche Aidshilfe 🇩🇪
Janine Lanz | Deputy Head of the Illegal Substances and Harm Reduction Division | City of Zurich 🇨🇭

📅 27th October 2026 at 15:00-16:30 (CEST)

🔗 Register here:
https://buff.ly/yqXZY4v

01/10/2026

You asked. We listened. We have extended the abstract submission deadline for !

Submit your abstract before Friday, 9 October.

https://hr27.hri.global/call-for-abstracts/

28/09/2026

📢 A new series of films, Drugs: It’s Complicated, has been created to encourage more informed and nuanced conversations about drugs and the people who use them. The films were developed by researchers from the University of Bristol in close collaboration with people with living and lived experience of drug use as part of a multi-year research project about stigma.

🎬️ The series includes 11 films, each exploring a different aspect of drug use, drug
policy, or the experiences of people who use drugs. The films feature interviews with 34 international experts, exploring questions including why people use drugs, why some people experience challenges when they do, the effects of stigma, and how society might respond differently to reduce harm.

▶️ The films are free to watch on YouTube and may be shared or used for teaching,
training, and public engagement. They are intended for anyone interested in learning more about drugs and stigma, including members of the public, educators,
healthcare professionals, social workers, police, and policymakers.

Start watching the series here:

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28/09/2026

📢 A new seven-part podcast series from the Asia Pacific Regional Learning Hub breaks down key aspects of the Global Fund’s Grant Cycle 8 guidance in episodes of under eight minutes.

🎧 The Extra Miles: For the Community, Grant Cycle 8 Under 8 Minutes series covers topics including HIV and TB priorities, human rights and gender-related barriers, community systems strengthening, integration, and sustainability and transition. A useful resource for community and civil society organisations engaging with Global Fund processes.

🔗 Listen to the first episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVx5HnntUjk&list=TLGGBZk5pd8AGUwyODA5MjAyNg&index=2

APRLH September 2026 Newsletter 2026 is out

This newsletter covers the podcast series- "For the Communities- Grant Cycle 8 under 8 minutes", an initiative called "Extra Miles" by Seven Alliance and the Catalyst Brief: Building knowledge, driving change! developed by NAPUD on Long-Acting Depot Buprenorphine (LADB): Access, Choice And Equity For People Who Use Drugs In Asia-Pacific.

Uncover the details of Podcast and Catalyst Brief by reading the APRLH September 2026 Newsletter :
https://mailchi.mp/sevenallianceap.com/asia-pacific-learning-hub-monthly-newsletter-63314

24/09/2026

📢 A new article introducing the European Toolkit for the Elimination of Viral Hepatitis in Prisons (EuroHePP) has been published open access in Liver International.

🔍️ Our Head of Research, Rafaela Rigoni, contributed to the article as part of C-EHRN’s participation in the EuroHePP Advisory Group, in which C-EHRN contributed feedback to the development of the toolkit.

⛑️ The article discusses the development of EuroHePP and the guidance it provides to strengthen responses to viral hepatitis in prison settings.

Read the article here:
🔗 https://buff.ly/0KgUiFB

Explore the EuroHePP toolkit here:
🔗 https://buff.ly/iicBSzX

22/09/2026

📢 Exciting start to a four-part webinar series, organised by our member UISCE and featuring our member Merchants Quay Ireland as speaker

✏️ Register here: https://bit.ly/472ACS3

UISCE and the The Irish Coalition For Drug Reform are delighted to invite you to the first of our four-part webinar series, From the Ground Up: Peer Leadership, Solidarity and Social Change.

Webinar 1: Nobody Left Behind: The need for harm reduction and recovery services across the continuum of care

🗓️ 29th of September, 2026 3 pm GMT

Register here: https://bit.ly/472ACS3

This webinar will explore the need for both harm reduction and recovery for a comprehensive continuum of care and the risks that can emerge from deprioritizing harm reduction in drug policy. This webinar will also launch a position paper on this topic. The development of this paper was informed by peer experiences on the ground that highlighted the need to support harm reduction efforts.

22/09/2026

➡️ Integrated and person-centred care is integral to providing people who use drugs with the support that they need, but integration efforts in many European cities remain uncoordinated, allowing health inequalities to persist.

➡️ Peer involvement in harm reduction services plays a vital role in ensuring that these services reflect the lived realities and needs of people who use drugs, yet only a handful of European cities employ people who use drugs in harm reduction services, overlooking the valuable insights and experiences of the very people harm reduction aims to support.

📢 Our last mini report, ‘Full Spectrum Harm Reduction’ is now available online. Through our analysis of harm reduction services in 42 European cities, we argue for an integrated, peer-led harm reduction approach that increases access to social and legal assistance and centres the insights and experiences of people who use drugs.

Read the report on our website ️🔗 https://buff.ly/LuIVnld

22/09/2026

I entered a residential therapeutic community in Greece expecting care, understanding and a way out of addiction. What I encountered was a culture in which humiliation, confrontation and submission could be presented as treatment. Years later, working in harm reduction and drug policy, I encountered the same institution again — this time as one of the most powerful voices shaping how Greece understood addiction and recovery. A guest article by Marios Atzemis, a leading Greek HIV activist and harm reduction expert - find the link in the comment, please feel free to share it!