Project title

"New opportunities in providing services for clients within the scope of HIV/AIDS prevention among drug users in Bauska"

The main objectives of the project are:

• Decrease HIV risk among injecting drug users (IDU) and improve service diversity;

• To improve availability of available services for IDUs;

• To improve the prestige of social work.

• Outreach workers established contacts with 27 new clients - injecting drug users, who started changing syringes in the HIV and addiction prevention cabinet.
• Increased the number of regular clients who change syringes: at the beginning of project - 20 per month, at the end - 47 (planned 65).
• Increased the number of contacts: at the beginning of project - 120 clients per month, at the end - 173 (planned 190).
• Decreased the number of thrown away syringes: percentage of returned syringes at the beginning of project was - 50%, at the end - 85% (planned 95%).
• Distributed 1800 syringes, collected - 1620 syringes.
• Increased the number of informed persons about HIV infection and treatment options - published 26 publications about HIV/AIDS and addictions.
• Performed 99 hepatitis B tests, 101 hepatitis C test and 73 HIV tests.
• Developed and distributed 200 questionnaires (returned back 170) about addictive substance use among youth. The survey results presented at the Bauska Social services agency and Bauska city schools.

UNODC budget