title: Critical remarks on strategies aiming to reduce drug related harm: substance misuse and HIV/AIDS in a world in turmoil
abstract: In the last decades, the initiatives implemented under the conceptual umbrella of Harm Reduction have gained momentum, with a vigor and scope (both from a geographic and social perspective) never seen before. A more balanced reevaluation could and should rather say such initiatives have resumed, to a large extent, ideas and actions launched much earlier, in the first decades of the 20th century. Notwithstanding, the dissemination of HIV/AIDS in recent years conferred an exceptional visibility an
journal: Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia