With a deep understanding of their own needs, communities in Africa have long found their own ways of addressing the challenges they face. But community voices are all too often ignored and their solutions overlooked in the development of the laws and policies that affect them. It is those most on the margins who have traditionally been the most overlooked: children, women, sex workers, the LGBTI community and injecting drug users are most at risk of contracting and transmitting HIV precisely because of their marginalised position in society.
NACOSA hosted the Amaqhawekazi Harm Reduction Summit 2026, from 26-27 August 2026, bringing together representatives of government departments, civil society organisations, community-led organisations, development partners, researchers, advocates, people who use
South Africa’s current drug policy framework is fragmented, with contradictions between legislation that criminalises personal drug use and policy commitments that recognise prevention, treatment, harm reductionand social reintegration as essential
A policy brief examining the legal and policy framework relating to under 18s who use drugs, including injecting drug use.
Policy brief on the community household health and social care assessment conducted by NACOSA and commissioned by the Western Cape Government.
