This includes the Harm Reduction program.
However, important challenges remain, such as provision of comprehensive care to female IDUs, including harm reduction, family planning and HIV treatment as well as provision of ANC and PMTCT, with an emphasis on improving timely access.
The findings of this report will be helpful in planning future harm reduction strategies among the FSWs in the region.
IPV interventions appear to increase safety planning and harm reduction behaviors among victimized women, e.g., increase ability to refuse sex, [ 72] reduce substance use in dating contexts, [ 73] and advance preparation for safe escape should violence escalate [ 74].
Among the nine objectives of the Vietnamese HIV/AIDS strategic plan 2006 2010, harm reduction accounts for nearly 20% of the total funds available, while PMTCT is allocated approximately 8% and the program to prevent sexually transmitted infections is planned to receive only 5% [ 2].
Women who participated in the study at treatment clinics received the following intervention: (1) integrated IPV and health screening; (2) supportive care; (3) safety planning and harm reduction counseling; (4) supportive referrals; and (5) booster counseling sessions at three months post baseline.
"This would really be the first in the country to take this approach," Daniel Raymond, policy director of the Harm Reduction Coalition, said of the proposed plan.
The harm reduction efforts come after the ACT government blocked plans for laboratory pill testing at the festival.
Hepatitis C Program Coordinator, Harm Reduction Coalition.
"The debate over whether syringe exchanges are beneficial has long been settled," Daniel Raymond, deputy director of planning and policy at the Harm Reduction Coalition, said per NBC.
