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and the specific needs and rights of transgender persons; ensure the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of medical and psychological services and support required by transgender people, including for transitioning. 9. Use WHO and UNODC guidelines and principles to develop harm reduction272 services for Amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) users in the community, provide interventions designed to mitigate the potential harm from ATS use and concomitant lifestyle. 10. Stop police abuse and extortion against sex workers, provide law enforcement officers with training and sensitization on human rights, gender identity, and non-discrimination towards transgender people. 11. Investigate and punish abusive and otherwise improper treatment of all sex workers; due diligence includes actions to prevent, investigate and punish violations by responding to all incidents. 272 “Harm reduction” refers to policies, programs and practices that aim primarily to reduce the adverse health, social and economic consequences of the use of legal and illegal psychoactive and narcotic drugs, without necessarily reducing drug consumption. (From WHO Technical Briefs on amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS)2 Harm reduction and brief interventions for ATS users). 66