The overall focus of harm reduction initiatives is to provide services that assist individuals to decrease harms from problematic substance use.  In so doing, often the broader determinants of women’s health—such as, poverty, mothering, violence, and social policies—are not well enough accounted for in the design of harm reduction services, policies and strategies.  In this section we bring a gender lens to harm reduction initiatives by considering how gender interacts with other determinants of women’s health, and how these interactions can be taken into account to more effectively reduce harms associated with women’s substance use.

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