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Understanding drug use is critical to addressing the HIV epidemic. NIDA’s At the Intersection: Stories of Research, Compassion, and HIV Services for People Who Use Drugs web video series highlights the ways in which evidence-based harm reduction and person-centered care is necessary to end the HIV epidemic for people who use drugs.
Video length: 3:51
What is Harm Reduction?
Harm Reduction approaches address certain health and safety issues associated with drug use. Dr. Hansel Tookes, winner of the NIDA Avenir Award for HIV Research, and others describe what harm reduction is (and isn’t) in their own words.
Video length: 6:19
Addressing Barriers to Care
NIDA-funded researcher Dr. Hansel Tookes and others share how innovations in harm reduction and HIV care aim to meet people where they are to improve their health and the health of their community.
Video length: 4:51
Caring for People Who Use Drugs
NIDA-supported research tests innovations in how to provide science-based, person-centered care to people who use drugs. Here, people who use drugs, people in recovery, and harm reduction professionals including Dr. Hansel Tookes, provide health professionals with best practices.Image
Video length: 8:19
Trust, Stigma and Patient Care
Science-based care for people who use drugs includes nonjudgmental communication and goal setting. NIH-funded researchers share best practices for health professionals.Image
Video length: 7:59
Sex, Meth and HIV
Ending the HIV epidemic requires recognizing and respecting the complexity of the health goals and lives of sexual and gender minorities who use drugs.Image
Video length: 3:41