people who inject drugs

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 In the latest batch of funding approvals from the Global Fund Board, three country grants and one multi-country grant received a total of $18.0 million in funding for initiatives on the Unfunded Quality Demand Register. The multi-country grant additional investment was funded by a private sector contribution, and the three country grants’ additional investments through portfolio optimization.

ABSTRACT The Global Fund Board recently approved three TB and HIV grants for Tanzania, two of which have a government principal recipient (the Ministry of Finance and Planning). The third PR is AMREF Health Africa. The Technical Review Panel cited numerous strengths in the funding request, including the fact that the request identified key populations for TB: i.e. HIV-positive adults and children, mining communities, elderly persons, prisoners, people with diabetes, people who inject drugs, health workers and people living in urban slums.

ABSTRACT In its audit of Global Fund grants to Ukraine, the Office of the Inspector General handed the country a mixed report card. It said that implementation arrangements, as well as procurement and supply chain management, were “partially effective,” the second highest ranking in the OIG’s rating scheme. However, it added, the effectiveness of program processes and controls needs significant improvement. The OIG also observed that Ukraine is scheduled to start transferring responsibility for key programs from NGOs to the government in the absence of a detailed transition plan.

ABSTRACT Despite the fact that the Technical Review Panel noted the lack of interventions targeting men who have sex with men, and transgendered persons, when it reviewed Ethiopia’s HIV concept note from the 2014–2016 allocations, the TB/HIV funding request for 2017-2019 made no mention of these populations. The TRP and the Ethiopian country coordinating mechanism went back and forth on this issue during the review of the funding request and during grant-making. The TRP suggested that Ethiopia set up male health clinics where MSM could remain anonymous.

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 Harm reduction efforts among people who inject drugs have contributed to a decrease in HIV incidence in Ukraine, according to a statement by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine.

ABSTRACT The community of people who inject drugs and their advocates in Eastern Europe and Central Asia credit the Global Fund as being the major supporter of harm reduction programmes in the region, but they are worried about whether these programmes will continue to be financed by the Fund.

ABSTRACT As of 31 March 2008, the recently completed Round 1 grant had provided prevention services to 214,103 people who inject drugs. This is one of the results described in a report released by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance. The grant exceeded the vast majority of its targets.