The Guidelines and Recommended Standards for the Provision of Support to Rape Survivors in the Acute Stage of Trauma was developed collectively by organisations providing services in Thuthuzela Care Centres as part of NACOSA’s Global Fund GBV programme. Compiled by Lisa Vetten, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), published by NACOSA with support from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria, 2015.

Decriminalisation of drugs
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



