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We help people living with HIV/AIDS, drug addicts and their relatives. Anonymity and confidentiality is guaranteed. |
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 According to international experts, to stop the epidemic of HIV / AIDS is necessary to use a variety of therapeutic programs for at least 60% of drug users. In other words – the need to deal with drug addicts. For this purpose, foreign experts even developed a strategy of harm reduction - the principle of conservation of health of each member of society, whose purpose is not to ban unhealthy behavior, and a partial reduction of harmful effects.
This strategy consists of several components: rehabilitation, treatment and prevention efforts (counseling, support groups). But the greatest result gives the so-called outreach: needle exchange, early rapid testing with further support to medical facilities, counseling "peer"-and substitution maintenance therapy. For maximum effect, and assistance to the greatest number of drug users in this paper are utilized and medical facilities.
In Poltava is the 6th year of being implemented harm reduction programs, in particular, vicariously-maintenance therapy. Today, her clients are more than 400 people: - those who have recently used drugs by injection, stealing to get another dose, are at risk of HIV infection of their loved ones. Now they regularly come to a medical facility, drink a medicine that blocks the craving for opium and go to work. In addition, each of them is engaged in specially allocated for the social worker who advises clients, accompany them to other medical institutions, helps to restore the documents to resolve the problematic issues with the police.
| | 08.05.2012 |
|  Charitable Association Light of Hope began to implement the project Prevention of HIV infection in prisons. The first such experience was in Kremenchug penal colony number 69, thank's to their administration who willingly went to the meeting. At the beginning of the project was conducted awareness training for personnel , then organizers started preventive work among prisoners. Every week representatives of CA Light of Hope come to the colony to hold information sessions and train volunteers who then in turn transmit the information to others.
| | 18.04.2012 |
|  In early March representatives of СA Light of Hope visited Vienna office of the United Nations (Austria). Director of Light of Hope Maxim Demchenko and deputy of Poltava City Council Nadezhda Timoshenko had a chance to present their activities in the Poltava region in developing services for women from vulnerable groups, homeless women who use drugs at the international management structure and to study the Viennese experience assisting vulnerable groups.
| | 14.03.2012 |
 Last week Poltava visited the representatives of NGOs from all over Ukraine: Odessa, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Cherkassy, Donetsk and other regions. Perhaps it the first time when national-level training was decided to hold it in our city. For two days the participants discussed the issue of mobilizing and advocating access to treatment and diagnosis of hepatitis C. The training was conducted with the support of ICF Renaissance and International HIV / AIDS in Ukraine. | | 25.02.2012 |
Glossary
| ART — Antiretroviral Therapy |
| PLWHA — People Living With HIV/AIDS |
| IDU — Injecting Drug Users |
| HIV — Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
| AIDS — Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome |
| SMT — Substitution Maintenance Therapy |
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