PAKISTAN SOCIETY

Harm Reduction Program

Drop-in-centers for injecting/non-injecting drug users
  • Monitor the locations of injecting drug use in the project area

  • Implement appropriate behavior change communication (bcc) strategies

  • Provide harm reduction services, including needle and syringe exchange

  • Provide condom education and distribution

  • Provide primary healthcare curative services and services for stis (stis) based on syndromic management using national guidelines

  • Provide education on sexual health and stis, and access to acceptable and appropriate services for stis

  • Provide access to voluntary counseling and testing services

  • Promote an enabling environment in the project area

  • Provide detoxification and rehabilitation activities

Outreach services
  • To visit the clusters of idus along road-sides, under the bridges, in graveyards, public parks and play-grounds, around railway stations and bus stops and on heaps of trash to:

  • Motivate them for taking treatment;

  • Teach them how to clean their needles/syringes;

  • Tell them about the risk of hiv/aids, stis and help them avoid sharing needles/syringes with their companions;

  • Educate them about safe sex so that they may be aware of the spread of hiv/aids through sexual activity including proper usage of condoms.

  • Provide them new syringes in exchange of their used syringes

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