IAS Members’ Meeting:’None Left Behind’ – the IAS’s Work with

Key Affected Populations

How drug policies based on prohibition law enforcement fuel the HIV and HCV

epidemics

Michel Kazatchkine

UN Secretary General Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia;

Commissioner, Global Commission on Drug Policy

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Фото: Hans Jürgen Burkard

Photo; Hans Jurgen Burkhart

Drug user awaits interrogation, Tajikistan

Science and policy

Science is a fundamental pillar of knowledge-based societies

Science can help provide the evidence base for sound public policy and evaluate policy effectiveness

The dialogue between science and policy is never straight forward

Scientists must learn to use the established communications channels for providing policy advice more effectively and be less aloof and perhaps less arrogant

Policy makers must be receptive to scientific advice , even when this advice is uncomfortable

For the science and policy relationship to work, policy makers have to challenge science to deliver on their public investment

Science and policy