HARM REDUCTION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO USE DRUGS IN UKRAINE: REACHING THE UNDERSERVED

About project

Project name:

HARM REDUCTION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO USE DRUGS IN UKRAINE: REACHING THE UNDERSERVED

Duration of the project: 01 Jan 2015 – 31 Dec 2018

Budget: £787,776

Donor: Elton John AIDS Foundation

Target population: young people who use drugs aged 10 to 18 and their sexual partners.

Overall goal: By the end of 2017 children and adolescents, who use drugs, as well as their sexual partners, will have access to quality services adapted to their needs, at organisations providing prevention services in the field of harm reduction in Ukraine, including all partner organisations of Alliance for Public Health.

KEY INDICATORS:

6,000 CYPUD and their sexual partners aged 10-18 receive comprehensive harm reduction services (VCT, facilitated progression to care and treatment, sterile syringes and needles, condoms and information materials)
4,800 young drug users and their sexual partners aged 10-18 have access to condoms
3,000 CYPUD and their sexual partners received voluntary counselling and HIV testing (VCT)
200 NGOs and service providers staff are trained and practice the delivery of harm reduction services to CYPUD

STRATEGIC PARTNERS

International HIV/AIDS Alliance, UK, Olena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation,The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), NGO partners, implementing Global Fund programme 2015-2017 “Investing for impact against Tuberculosis and HIV”, state authorities working with children and families, national and international stakeholders.

Project activities

Calendar of Events

Participatory site assessment among adolescents aged 10-18 who use drugs

PSA results, 2015

Coverage of project activities at international conferences

Presentation of PSA findings of the Project: “Harm Reduction for Children and Young People who Use Drugs in Ukraine: Reaching the Underserved” at IHRC 2015 by Slava Kushakov, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Participation in the International scientific conference “Effective approaches to work with young people who have experience with substance use”. Kyiv, 18-20 November 2015

Project Library

The Social and Psychological Work with Adolescents in HIV-service Organizations

Model “Peer Driven Intervention” among children and adolescents, practicing behavior

Summary of the Biobehavioural Research “Study among most at risk adolescents” (based on data from 2014)

Life of children and adolescents with high-risk behavior

First Paramedical Assistance in Harm Reduction Projects

A Brief Summary of the Findings of Operational Research “The Lifestyles and Key Behavior Models of Street Children and Most-At-Risk Adolescents”

Overview and analysis of harm reduction approaches and services for Children and Adolescents who Use Drugs

Consolidated guidelines on HIV key populations

Injecting Drug Use Among Children and the Child’s Right to Health

STEP BY STEP (A tool for harm reduction service providers – preparing for work with children and young people who inject drugs)

Injecting Drug Use Among Under-18s. A Snapshot of Available Data

A report on the results obtained in carrying out a regional assessment, involving the participation. Phase 1.

Losted Childhood is a documentary produced by Alliance for Public Health. The video is featuring young people who use drugs in Ukraine. They tell their stories looking back at their past and talk about their drug use initiation. We see the consequences of adolescents using drugs having no access to prevention programs.

With this video, we would like to draw public attention to the importance of ensuring sustainability of HIV prevention programs among children and adolescents at risk, especially among those who use psychoactive substances. This video demonstrates the existence of a big gap in time between the start of risky behaviors and initiation of harm reduction services delivered to young people with drug dependence

Photogallery

Contact – Vyacheslav Kushakov