The Street Support Good Practice Collection addresses social services, including social entrepreneurs and adult trainers, municipalities and local governments. The Collection wants to make a substantial contribution to improve current service provision for people who use drugs and/or alcohol in...
Tags: General public, Health care professionals, NGOs, Global, Care and support, Harm reduction
HA-REACT - Joint Action on HIV and Co-infection Prevention and Harm Reduction
Reporting Period: October 2015 – January 2019
The Joint Action on HIV and Co-infection Prevention and Harm Reduction (HA-REACT) addresses existing gaps in the prevention of HIV and other co-infections, especially tuberculosis and viral hepatitis, among people who inject drugs.
The ...
Tags: Health care professionals, NGOs, Policy makers, WHO European region, Advocacy, Capacity building, Harm reduction, Prevention, Quality development and assurance, Resource mobilisation, STI's, Testing and counselling, Treatment, Tubercolosis, Viral hepatitis
HA-REACT - Joint Action on HIV and Co-infection Prevention and Harm Reduction
The aim of the toolkit on Implementing Integrated Care Models for People Who Inject Drugs is to provide information on core recommendations and guidelines on how HIV, HCV and TB prevention and treatment activities could be integrated and combined with harm reduction measures to be effectively...
Tags: Health care professionals, NGOs, Policy makers, WHO European region, Care and support, Harm reduction
Global Partnership on Drug Policies and Development; Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs; and the United Nations Development Programme
Drug control intersects with much of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the UN Member State pledge to leave no one behind. In line with the 2030 Agenda, the UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021 and the HIV, Health and Development Strategy 2016-2021: Connecting the Dots, the International...
Tags: Ethnic minorities, General public, Health care professionals, NGOs, People who use drugs (PUD), Policy makers, Global, Harm reduction, Human rights, Laws and regulations, Legislation, Policy
Babak Moazen, Kate Dolan, Rebecca Bosworth, Priscilla N. Owusu, Peter Wiessner, Heino Stöver
Sexual contacts are an undeniable fact among prisoners around the world. However, policy makers and prison governors as well as medical services deny the existence of same-sex-activities in prisons. Homophobia is a global concept of denial of human variety of sexual identity. Once again the...
Tags: Health care professionals, Policy makers, Prisoners (ex-), WHO European region, Harm reduction, Inequalities in health, Laws and regulations, Legislation
European Joint Action on HIV and Co-infection Prevention and Harm Reduction, HA-REACT
This brochure explains what harm reduction is consisting of and how it benefits to people who use drugs, as well as their families and communities.
Harm reduction acknowledges that people should not need to stop using drugs to receive help. Research shows that harm reduction decreases...
Tags: Health care professionals, Injecting drug users (IDUs), NGOs, People living with HIV (PLHIV), People who are/were in prisons, People who use drugs (PUD), Policy makers, Global, Care and support, Harm reduction
The "Opioid Substitution Treatment in Custodial Settings. A Practical Guide” by A. Kastelic, J. Pont, H.Stӧver was translated into Polish and adopted to the Polish conditions during the workshop in November 2017. The Polish edition of the material has been enriched with:
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Tags: Health care professionals, People who are/were in prisons, Policy makers, WHO European region, Harm reduction
Tags: Health care professionals, Injecting drug users (IDUs), People who are/were in prisons, People who use drugs (PUD), Prisoners (ex-), Global, WHO European region, Care and support, Harm reduction, Prevention
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
This document provides EU/EEA Member States with evidence-based scientific advice on active case finding options. These options can be applied to the planning and implementation of interventions that promote the early diagnosis of communicable diseases in prison settings.
Tags: General public, Health care professionals, People living with HIV (PLHIV), People who are/were in prisons, Policy makers, WHO European region, Advocacy, Care and support, Harm reduction, Inequalities in health, Monitoring and Evaluation, Prevention, Testing and counselling, Tubercolosis, Viral hepatitis
