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Partners involved:
• WP coordinator Eurasian Harm Reduction Network
• Fixpunkt, Germany
• Collaborating partners
Background:
Thematic focus: hepatitis C prevention, treatment and care for injecting drug users; mainly interventions with elements of advocacy.
Geography: the EU countries, but some ‘seats’ in the training and among experts will be allocated for Eastern Europeans.
Expected results:
• HCV made sound on policy level;
• The capacity of civil society and professionals to advocate for HCV in countries increased;
• A training tool on HCV adopted for the CE/EE created and is used though EHRN Knowledge Hub;
Objectives
• Promote effective and qualified prevention and management of HCV among injecting drug users;
• Help build the capacities of harm reduction and other drug services working “on the ground” on hepatitis C prevention, counselling and treatment literacy among injecting drug users (IDUs).
Description of the work
Key components:
1) Develop a short good practice toolkit (collection) on HCV interventions in the EU (by February – March 2010);
2) Develop a training tool on HCV and deliver advanced training for service providers and other stakeholders in the EU and neighborhood (by the end of 2010).
3) Field test the training tool (2011)
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