Edited by:
Perrine Roux, PhD, Sciences Economiques & Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de l'Information Médicale, Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France
Harm Reduction Journal is calling for submissions to our Collection on HARENE: Fostering Francophone Community-based Participatory Harm Reduction Research.
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The party setting is a dynamic social environment where the world of drug use, the role of music, and a multiplicity of social interactions all converge, often marked by the disruption of social and temporal n...
Since the early days of the fight against HIV, zines have appeared to play a dual role: they encourage affected communities to voice their experiences and facilitate the exchange of information between researc...
In the context of online drug communities, the ethos of harm reduction comprises a set of ethical and practical principles that enable drug enthusiasts to shift stigma by normalizing certain behaviors to the d...
Harm reduction (HR) services are developing in Africa. In Senegal, the overall HR service coverage ratio is one WUD for every 10 men. By analysing gender-specific initiatives developed by HR stakeholders and e...
In the early 1990s, the spread of HIV among heroin injectors prompted a shift in drug policy internationally, including in France. This led to the emergence of a new policy known as Harm Reduction (HR) and rel...
This article is part of Harm Reduction Journal’s special issue on harm reduction research in the francophone context and specifically the Harm Reduction Network (HARENE). After highlighting the history and cur...
The increasing diversity of psychoactive substances on the unregulated drug market poses significant health, psychological, and social risks to people who use drugs (PWUD). To address these risks, various harm...
The Correction to this article has been published in Harm Reduction Journal 2024 21:213
Harm Reduction Journal is calling for submissions to our Collection on HARENE: Fostering Francophone Community-based Participatory Harm Reduction Research. Producing scientific knowledge on harm reduction means including people who use drugs (PWUD) in ‘participatory and community-based research’ (CBPR), a validated and demonstrated scientific approach.
Harm reduction advocates a more central contribution of PWUD in CBPR. Specifically, by sharing their lay knowledge and living experiences, PWUD can improve other stakeholders’ understanding of their realities and needs, thereby informing the design of suitable interventions.
Ensuring that scientific knowledge can be disseminated, accessed, and communicated in different languages is one way to encourage communities to participate in research. However, for many non-native academic researchers, publishing in English (the scientific world’s primary language) is not possible without extra funding for copyediting/translation services. For community-based associations with a non-academic background who desire to participate in CBPR, this linguistic and financial barrier is even greater.
The CBPR-based harm reduction network HARENE wishes to reduce this barrier by helping associations in France to publish their work in English, with a view to increasing the diversity of science and knowledge and reducing the production of ignorance and undone science. Publishing a France-specific collection in Harm Reduction Journal would not only promote this endeavor, it would encourage other non-academic CBPR stakeholders in harm reduction to follow suit.
This Collection welcomes submission of original research articles, reviews, position articles/comments. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal.
Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “HARENE: Fostering Francophone Community-based Participatory Harm Reduction Research" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.
Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.
The Editor has no competing interests with the submissions which she handles through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editor has competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.