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ABSTRACT The Eurasian Harm Reduction Network is implementing a $6 million regional programme which seeks to facilitate effective regional advocacy for harm reduction among injection drug users across five countries in EECA.
ABSTRACT Harm Reduction International and Frontline AIDS (formerly known as the International HIV/AIDS Alliance) released a joint briefing in January urging the Global Fund Board to sustain investments in harm reduction interventions, in advance of the Fund's upcoming decision at its May Board meeting on its allocation methodology and catalytic funding priorities for the 2020-2022 period.
ABSTRACT Russia is transitioning from recipient to donor of Global Fund grants, prompting concerns from civil society about potential gaps in service delivery, specifically related to prevention and harm reduction activities.
ABSTRACT Representatives from ten countries involved in a $10-million Global Fund regional malaria initiative across Mesoamerica and Hispaniola met to evolve national strategies away from control and towards elimination.
ABSTRACT A delegation of East Africans visited harm reduction facilities in China to learn about their approach take-home methadone for people who use drugs, for possible application at home. The exchange was organized via the Global Fund’s multi-country harm reduction grant in East Africa, which is coming to an end this year.
ABSTRACT The Georgian Harm Reduction Network is hailing a new law that overturns the requirement for emergency personnel to notify police when responding to possible drug overdose: a step they consider crucial towards decriminalizing drug use in the country.
ABSTRACT In what local activists are hailing as a “very important step in ensuring the sustainability of HIV services in Macedonia," the newly elected government has ordered the Ministry of Health to budget a considerable amount of money to provide antiretrovirals for people living with HIV as well as prevention services to key affected populations such as men who have sex with men, persons who inject drugs, and sex workers.
ABSTRACT This article provides information about how the research of the clinical protocols for opioid substitution therapy supported by the Global Fund, contributes towards sustainability of harm reduction programs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
ABSTRACT In Georgia, the government supports opioid substitution therapy programs at the same time as it enforces repressive drug policies and laws on the use of illicit drugs. Activists have been using human rights arguments to convince the government to change its repressive policies. In this commentary, Tinatin Zardiashvili argues that a public health and harm reduction approach might prove more effective.
ABSTRACT The new National Platform for Drug Policy in Georgia brings together 33 entities representing NGOs providing services, other civil society organizations, unions, research organizations, and drug user community groups.
