|
Partners involved:
• WP coordinator: European Aids Treatment Group (EATG)
• Department of Health Autonomous Government of Catalonia
• Collaborating partners
Background
In the Dublin Declaration (February 2004), among other recommendations, agreement was reached to “… scale up access for injecting drug users to prevention, drug dependence treatment and harm reduction services through promoting, enabling and strengthening the widespread introduction of prevention, drug dependence treatment and harm reduction programmes 2 (e.g. needle and syringe programmes, bleach and condom distribution, voluntary HIV counselling and testing, substitution drug therapy, STI diagnosis and treatment) in line with national policies”; and in the Vilnius Declaration (September 2004) agreement to “provide universal, affordable, non-judgmental and non-discriminating access to prevention services for HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, including preventive information and activities, voluntary and confidential counselling and testing, condoms, drug dependence treatment and harm reduction services for drug injectors 3 and prevention of mother-to-child transmission.”
Objectives
To formulate policy recommendations by:
• providing evidence-based health arguments for full access to HIV/AIDS servicestransporting results and findings of the project to a policy level by formulating policyrecommendations in regard to the various health promotion interventions in the field of
BBID
• stimulating and organising the dialogue with policy and decision makers on European and national level
Description of the work
Actions will be undertaken to influence policy agendas by identifying obstacles and barriers and by formulating evidence based policy recommendations. An extensive review of data and information (evidence and practice based) will identify risk determinants for the different target groups, taking into account regional aspects. Policy recommendations will be formulated including epidemiological data, as well as public health, economic and human rights arguments for ensuring access and serving HIV affected groups in different European regions. The formulation of public health arguments and policy recommendations for providing prevention, treatment, care and support in the field of HIV/AIDS will also take into account an evaluation of the health, social and economic impacts.
|