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| Peer driven intervention | |
| Central Asia Regional HIV/AIDS Programme funded by DFID and implemented by GRM has recently piloted the peer driven intervention project (PDI) at harm reduction service organization “Socium” in Kyrgyzstan in the framework of its operational research. PDI pilot project has started in August 2008. Objectives: • To pilot and adopt the outreach model based on peer to peer principle in the specifics of Kyrgyzstan. • To evaluate the effectiveness and costing of two outreach models: traditional outreach and peer to peer based model in terms of coverage and behavior change of the PDI target group. • To provide recommendations for implementation of the PDI model for other HR programmmes. Methodology: The model is fully relying on IDUs who are educating other IDUs in the community and attracting them to the project to provide information on HIV/ADS prevention and harm reduction. All recruited IDUs can become the recruiters also and educate other IDUs on HIV prevention. As motivation for IDUs to recruit other IDUs, they get incentives as food packages. Conclusion: Based on current results the PDI project has shown the high effectiveness of achieving the hidden groups as female IDUs and youth IDUs. CARHAP team considers to further use the PDI innovative model for closed population of IDUs not only in Kyrgyzstan but in the whole Central Asia. |
