Noting the United Nations last week "announced the appointment of Dr. Michel Kazatchkine, the former head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, as the U.N. Secretary-General's new special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia," Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, director of the Open Society Foundations' global drug policy program, writes in this Huffington Post opinion piece, "[W]hile Dr. Kazatchkine's skills will be principally devoted to a handful of E.U. Member States and some neighbors, all of Europe would be wise to heed his guidance on the importance of sensible drug policies in the HIV response." She continues, "As a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy -- a body of experts from politics, health, academia and business -- Dr. Kazatchkine reminded leaders that 'the war on drugs has fueled the HIV epidemic.'"