This Friday, in our International Overdose Awareness Webinar, our presenters will be discussing the development and strengthening of peer-led harm reduction programs that save lives every day! 💜

It is unacceptable to let 6 people a day die of overdose in Australia. Rather than investing in harm reduction, the funding keeps going to policing and maintaining criminalisation, which costs more tax dollars, creates black markets, and drives toxic supplies...time for a change.

It's time we end the prohibition experiment:

Fund #harmreduction.

New speakers for our International Overdose Awareness Day webinar!!! We will also have the opportunity to hear from Sione, AIVL Director and Harm Reduction Vic's CEO, as well as Colleen, Assistant Director - PBS section 100 Programs Australian Department of Health and Aged Care & manager of the Take Home Naloxone

Such a privilege to be at the QuIVAA Overdose Awareness event at Qld Parliament House in collaboration with QuIHN and the Qld Mental Health Commission! So proud of our Qld DUOs and their teams for putting this together, what an amazing success! 💜 #EndOverdose #HarmReduction

Together we can reduce the rate of overdose by checking our drugs! CanTEST is the first fixed site drug checking service in Australia, and has been running succesfully and safely for over 2 years! Come and test your stuff and receive harm reduction advice from peers <3

Don't forget to register for our free AIVL International Overdoses Awareness online webinar tomorrow!! And to sign up with our newsletter as well to get the videos of our events, advocacy updates, and much more: aivl.org.au/news/ 💜🤩👌

Harm reduction strategies are cost-effective and prevent HIV among people who inject drugs; however, harm reduction is only getting 6% of the funding it needs. Learn more about the harm reduction funding crisis in low-and-middle income countries here 👇 aidspan.org/the-cost-of-co…

Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug Use! 2/2☂️ In August of this year, Youth RISE conducted an interview with Justice, Presto and Paula, who are part of the team of authors and collaborators behind Body Autonomy. 📚 Today, we'd like you to know more about them!🙌🏽

Join us for the AIVL International Overdose Awareness Day webinar at 12:30pm today to discuss what systems need and should already be in place to prevent overdoses and effectively protect the lives of people who use drugs! 💜us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Amazing webinar today honoring the legacy of our peers and allies 💜 Thank you to all our presenters and to our amazing audience members. If you want to get the video of the event, please make sure to register for our 'The Substance' newsletter at: aivl.org.au/news ✨️👌

And the War on People who use drugs, discrimination, and harm continue! How can we kill people because they use drugs in 2024, this is truly backward and one day history will look down on Singapore for executing community members and also for Australia for letting six people a

On International Overdose Awareness Day, we remember the peers we have lost and send our community our deepest love, care and support across Australia and the world.💜 "On this day of 2024, as the current Australian National Drug Strategy completely failed us with increased

AIVL supports our LGBTIQ+ communities and signed LGBTIQ+ Health Australia's Joint Statement calling for the inclusion of three new topics on gender, variations of sex characteristics, and sexual orientation variables into the 2026 Census to ensure crucial visibility through data