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Ghana has taken a significant step forward in public health with the launch of the National Harm Reduction Guidelines for Persons Who Use Drugs, marking a historic shift in how the country responds to drug use. The guide was developed under the leadership of WAPCAS Plus in collaboration with the Ghana AIDS Commission, Ghana Health Service, the Narcotics Control Commission, the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General’s Department, the Commission on Human Rights and Administra

In Ghana and Nigeria, punitive drug laws have contributed to prison overcrowding, HIV prevalence, and the isolation of people from healthcare systems. According to the West Africa Commission on Drugs, chaired by the late Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General, drug use should be treated primarily as a public health issue, not a criminal one.

The harm reduction centre is the first of several planned to be established across the country to provide harm reduction services to PWUDs.

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