Ongoing projects: HIV and AIDS

GLO/KO1 - ""Prevention of drug use, HIV/AIDS and crime among young people through family skills training programmes in low- and middle-income countries"

This project will implement evidence-based family skills training programmes to prevent drug use, HIV/AIDS and crime and delinquency among young people by strengthening and improving the capacity of families to take better care of children in 2 different sites in up to 21 different countries in 4 regions during the three phases of project. Local government agencies and/or non-governmental organisations in low- and middle- income countries will be supported by UNODC Field Offices in translating and systematically adapting evidence-based family skills training programmes to fit the local culture and language. They will be evaluated following a rigorous research methodology by local and international research institutes. This way the project will build the capacity of local institutions to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate family skills training programmes.

 

GLO/J71 - "Partnership for Action on Comprehensive Treatment (PACT) - Treating drug dependence and its health consequences / OFID-UNODC Joint Programme to prevent HIV/AIDS through Treatnet Phase II"

This project, building on lessons learned from the predecessor project GLO/H43, addresses the limited technical capacity for the provision of diversified and effective drug treatment and rehabilitation services, including their capacity to support HIV/AIDS prevention and care. It consists of the provision of technical assistance, identification and dissemination of good practices while exploring the possibilities for maintaining and enhancing field level activities. A global Partnership for Action on Comprehensive Treatment (PACT) will be launched in collaboration with WHO, to increase the level of awareness on addiction as a treatable multifactorial disease and effective drug dependence treatment and support its implementation.

 

RAC/I29 - "Effective HIV/AIDS prevention and care among vulnerable populations in Central Asia and Azerbaijan"

There is a worrisome trend of increasing infection rates in Central Asian counties. In these countries, HIV/AIDS epidemics started among injecting drug users and other vulnerable population groups such as people in prison settings. As of now, there are still windows of opportunity to prevent these generalized epidemics through large-scale strategic interventions. The rapidly spreading HIV/AIDS epidemics in the region is a relatively new challenge for the governments and civil society, which are not ready either technically or politically to properly address the epidemics.
Through addressing normative policy and programmatic aspects and capacity building, the project will establish a favourable environment in all project countries to better implement HIV/AIDS prevention and care activities among injecting drug users and in prison settings, and facilitate regional information sharing of lessons learned in this area.