Drug dependence treatment & HIV/AIDS awareness in four prisons in Pakistan

Duration : 36 Months (April 2007- March 2010)
Estimated Starting Date :  April 2007
Location :  Pakistan
Result Area :  HIV/AIDS prevention and care (as related to injecting drug users,   prison settings and trafficking in human beings)
Result :  Expand Member States' capacity to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS  among injecting drug users, in conformity with relevant international conventions and the established mandates of UNODC
Executing Agency :  UNODC
Government Implementing Agency :  Ministry of Narcotics Control/National HIV/AIDS Control Programme
Partner UN Organisations :  UNAIDS
UNODC Total Budget :  US $ 496,900

Brief Description

This project aims to counter the problem of drug abuse and the spread of HIV/AIDS in four selected prisons through interventions that will enable prisoners to make their own informed choices vis-à-vis drug abuse, prison life, HIV/AIDS and their own future. The project is expected to serve as a model for the implementation of similar interventions in other prisons on a larger scale.

 

Objective:             To introduce drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation and HIV/AIDS information services to prisons in Pakistan on sustainable basis;

Output 1:

Study to establish extent and nature of Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS problems in prisons and carried and out discussed with stakeholders

Output 2:

Orientation training of prison staff in drug dependence treatment and HIV/AIDS prevention, at the central Prison Staff Training Institute, Lahore

Output 3:

Selection of four participating prisons

Output 4:

Drug dependence treatment and rehabilitation among drug-dependent prison inmate's programme and HIV/AIDS information programme among all prison population developed for four prisons

Output 5:

Drug Dependence Treatment & Rehabilitation programme and HIV/AIDS information implemented in four selected prisons

Output 6:

Follow up and social reintegration of recovered drug dependent persons/users after their release from prisons

Output 7:

HIV/AIDS Information