On 8 April 2022, UNODC conducted a national round table meeting on the introduction of new methods and tools for drug use disorders diagnostics and treatment in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
The event brought together 20 experts from the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Population of the Republic of Tajikistan (MHSPP); state agencies: Republican Clinical Drug Addiction Center named after Professor M.Gh. Ghulomov under MHSPP, National Drug Addiction Monitoring and Prevention Center under MHSPP, National Center for AIDS Prevention and Control under MHSPP and UNODC representatives.
“This meeting builds on Tajikistan’s efforts, since 2010, to improve access to quality drug dependence treatment, supported by UNODC. It aims to strengthen further national capacity in drug dependence treatment, care, monitoring, and research,” said Mustafa Erten, Head of the UNODC Programme Office in Tajikistan, in his opening remarks.
Borikhan Shaumarov, Senior Programme Officer, UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia, made a presentation on the successful experience of introducing UNODC/WHO quality assurance and mapping tools for drug treatment services in Central Asia. He also informed the participants of the progress achieved towards introducing selected courses of the Universal Treatment Curriculum for Substance Use Disorders (UTC training package).
National experts presented the results of piloting international quality assurance tools for drug treatment services and a study mapping existing and potential drug dependency treatment services in Tajikistan.
The participants were also informed of the outcomes of the Stop Overdose Safely (S-O-S) initiative implementation in Tajikistan.
Following the presentations, participants discussed recommendations for integrating piloted tools for diagnosing and treating drug use disorders into the national drug treatment system.
The round table meeting was conducted within the UNODC’s global project GLOJ71 “Treating drug dependence and its health consequences: Treatnet II”, funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), in collaboration with Sub-programme 3 “Addressing drug use, increasing treatment of drug use disorders and preventing HIV/AIDS” of the UNODC Programme for Central Asia 2022-2025.
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Nurangez Abdulhamidova
Communication and External Relations Officer
UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia
Email: nurangez.abdulhamidova[at]un.org
