CoMPSS

CoMPSS: «Gender-oriented medical and psychosocial services to women with opioid use disorders and female patients of opioid agonist treatment program»

The project is being implemented with the financial assistance of Expertise France and Initiative on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria: France’s indirect contribution to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria (“GF”), placed under the oversight of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs

 

 

 

Partners:

  1. Charitable organization “Ukrainian Network of Women who Use Drugs “VONA”
  2. Frontline AIDS

Implementation period: 01.02.2024 – 31.01.2027

Geography: 5 cities – Kyiv, Dnipro, Lviv, Odesa, Kryvyi Rih

Budget: 1 500 000.00 € /euro

Goal: Reducing barriers to access prevention and medical services for women with opioid use disorders, female patients engaged in opioid agonist therapy (OAT), and victims of violence (of all genders among people who use drugs).

Main tasks:

  • Psychosocial, health and humanitarian support for female patients engaged in opioid agonist therapy (OAT)
  • Opening of the Mother and Child rooms based on OAT sites in the 5 cities – Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Odesa
  • Opening of the Green Room to provide qualified psychological, medical, legal and social support to victims of violence (of all genders among people who use drugs) in Dnipro city.
  • Implement gender-transformative programs to reduce the impact of patriarchal norms undergirding gender stereotypes and barriers to accessing prevention services.

Contacts:

Project Manager: Olga Dolechek, dolechek@aph.org.ua

Program Specialist: Serhiy Kharitonov, kharitonov@aph.org.ua

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