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AD/MYA/03/G54 - Reducing injecting drug use and its harmful consequences in The Union of Myanmar

1. Project Code and Sector

No. and Title: AD/MYA/03/G54 - Reducing injecting drug use and its harmful consequences in The Union of Myanmar
Duration: 5 years
Status/Starting Date: 2003
Strategic Theme and Result Area: HIVAIDS
Executing Agency: UNODC-UNDCP
Aggregate Budget & Funding Source: 2,105,096 US$

 

2. Project Background and Justification

The Project is an extension of an earlier project that was implemented by UNODC, CARE Myanmar, and Médecins du Monde. The project continued to deliver HIV/AIDS prevention, drug use prevention and education to DU/IDU and associated populations through drop in centres, Drug Treatment Centre, Rehabilitation Centres and outreach activities. The project also provided comprehensive package of services to drug users, their families and the community, which includes prevention, treatment, and basic health care. Additionally, counseling sessions, re-integration activities, HIV/AIDS preventative education, and vocational trainings were also provided. Through delivering services to IDUs/DUs and their partners, the project improves the outreach, care and support services for drug users and expands their social, vocational and recreational service to the drug users. This also leads them to develop and maintain positive behaviour that prevents injecting drug use and HIV transmission. In addition, the project also build concrete foundations on the advocacy to police and prisons personnel, strengthened the existing township working groups, improved skill and knowledge of services providers in treatment and rehabilitations, and developed IEC materials to use during the trainings among the uniform services. This project will conduct community-based activities in 3 townships in Kachin State (Myitkyina, Moegaung and Moehyin/Hopin) and in selected townships in Yangon,Mandalay and Lashio municipality (in Northern Shan State). Institutional based activities in 45 sites of 30 townships will be also conducted.

 

3. Immediate Objective, Outputs and Main Activities

Objective: To reduce the injecting drug use and its harmful consequences especially the HIV/AIDS infection among IDUs and their families and communities through increased access to information and services for drug users.

Output 1: The immediate needs of the drug users for effective behaviour changes towards less HIV related risks have been attended to.

Output 2: An enabling environment for prevention activities for drug abuse and HIV/AIDS has been improved.

Output 3: The availability and the quality of drug treatment, detoxification, maintenance, counselling, support and rehabilitation services to IDUs, and prevention of opportunistic infections and care to PHA at the institutional settings (existing detoxification centres, hospitals, and criminal justice system) has been increased.

Output 4: The availability and the quality of drug treatment, detoxification, maintenance counselling, support and rehabilitation services to IDUs, and prevention of opportunistic infections and care to PHA at non-institutional settings (drop-in centres, GP, traditional healers, mobile teams, families and communities) has been increased.

Activities: The project continued to deliver HIV/AIDS prevention, drug use prevention and education to DU/IDU and associated populations through drop in centres, Drug Treatment Centre (DTC), Rehabilitation Centres and outreach activities. The project also provided comprehensive package of services to drug users, their families and the community, which includes prevention, treatment, and basic health care. Additionally, counselling sessions, re-integration activities, HIV/AIDS preventative education, and vocational trainings were also provided.

In addition, the project also built concrete foundations on the advocacy to police and prisons personnel, strengthened the existing township working groups, improved skill and knowledge of services providers in treatment and rehabilitations, and developed IEC materials to use during the trainings among the uniform services. Through the advocacy meetings, workshops, study visits, and seminars, UNODC and CARE Myanmar were permitted to conduct HIV/AIDS awareness- Trainee of Trainers (TOT) trainings in 15 prisons and 6 camps.

 

4. Counterpart, Institutional Setting and Implementing Arrangements

The Project is an extension of an earlier project that was implemented by UNODC, CARE Myanmar, and Médecins du Monde. In extension, UNODC and CARE Myanmar have continued to provide services for drug users in 5 townships in Mandalay. During the extension, these services have been expanded in a limited way to Northern Shan State (Lashio Township). In addition, activities with Myanmar's Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) task forces and the Prison Department were continued and expanded to improve knowledge on HIV transmission by those working closely with injecting drug users. UNODC continued taking responsibility for the project's overall coordination and monitoring. It also supported non-institutional rehabilitation services and carried out capacity building in non-institutional rehabilitation centres and prisons.