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National Health Promotion for Young Prisoners (HPYP): Research Report United Kingdom
The main objective of the Health Promotion for Young Prisoners project is to develop and improve health promotion among vulnerable groups of young people in prison. In the UK, there already exists a substantial body of research on health promotion practice in custodial settings. It was therefore decided that the focus for the UK would be on a deeper evaluation of existing data and health…
Health Promotion for Young Prisoners (HPYP): Research Report Romania
The report presents the results of a research conducted in Romania in 2011, part of a wider project called Health Promotion for Young Prisoners (HPYP) covering partners from seven European countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Romania and United Kingdom.
Health Promotion for Young Prisoners (HPYP): National Research Report LATVIA
Since 2010, Latvian Association for Family Planning and Sexual Health „Papardes zieds” takes part in the EC funded project „HPYP” coordinated internationally by the Scientific Institute of the Medical Association of German Doctors.
Health Promotion for Young Prisoners (HPYP): National Research Report Germany
A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was applied in the research phase to analyse needs and obstacles in health promotion for young prisoners. The data collection was carried out from April 2011 to August 2011 and a sample of 86 young prisoners for the quanti-tative needs assessment and 25 young prisoners for the qualitative focus group interviews as well as 23 staff members for…
Health Promotion for Young Prisoners: RESEARCH REPORT ESTONIA
In the period of July 2011 – August 2011 NGO Convictus Estonia carried out research to examine existing approaches to health promotion for young prisoners and to explore prisoner’s and prison staff‘s needs.
Health Promotion for Young Prisoners: Comprehensive literature review
Comprehensive literature review
National Research Report Czech Republic
The main objective of the research project was to gain a detailed overview of the attitudes and needs of young offenders in order to develop and improve health promotion among vulnerable groups of young people in prison. The first component involved the mapping of attitudes and needs among young offenders. The second component surveyed the existing practice of health promotion, including the…
Drug consumption rooms in Europe - Models, Best Practice and Challenges
This report is a product of the European Harm Reduction Network.
Realizing our vision: report of the Regional Director on the work of WHO in the European Region in 2012–2013
In 2010, the WHO Regional Committee for Europe adopted an ambitious five-year vision of better health in the WHO European Region. This book covers the second two years. It describes how all parties are making their vision a reality, to secure better health for everyone in Europe.
Prisons and Health
This book outlines important suggestions by international experts to improve the health of people in prison and to reduce the risks posed by imprisonment to both health and society.
Assessing the burden of key infectious diseases affecting migrant populations in the EU/EEA
Migrant health is receiving increasing attention in Europe and is a priority for ECDC. This summary presents the main findings of an ECDC project to assess the burden of infectious diseases among migrants in the EU/EEA and the completeness, quality and usefulness of data collected by the European Surveillance System (TESSy).
HIV treatment as prevention - briefing paper
This briefing paper, produced by NAM for HIV Prevention England, describes the scientific evidence for HIV treatment as prevention and considers its implications for the UK.
Regional Technical Consultation on the Dissemination of Consolidated Guidelines on the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating and Preventing HIV Infection in Eastern European and Central Asian Countries
In July 2013, the WHO released the “Consolidated Guidelines on the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating and Preventing HIV Infection”. A regional technical consultation in October 2013 addressed the clinical, operational and programmatic aspects of the consolidated guidelines, countries’ current policies and their national plans to introduce and implement the new WHO guidelines. The…
Līdzestība: brošūra pacientiem. Приверженность: брошюра для пациентов.
Ja esi izlēmis uzsākt lietot zāles, tad dzirdēji, ka ir jābūt līdzestīgam. Ko tas nozīmē, cik tas ir svarīgi, kas tev var traucēt būt līdzestīgam – atbildes tu saņemsi izlasot šo brošūru. Если ты принял решение начать принимать лекарства, то слышал, что нужно быть приверженным. Что это значит, насколько это важно, что может помешать тебе быть приверженным – ты получишь ответы в этой брошюре.
Antiretrovīrusu terapijas blakusparādības. To efektīva pārvaldība.
This brochure is translated material from iBASE «Guide to Avoiding and Managing Side Effects» and has been modified for the needs of the local community.
HIV, grûtniecîba un sievietes veselîba. Rokasgrâmata.
This brochure is translated material from i-Base «Guide to HIV, pregnancy & women's health» and has been modified for the needs of the local community.
Who’s afraid of science? Data collection, quality standards and evaluation -Examples from Europe
Many NGOs and grass-root services have indicated that
they have insufficient knowledge, expertise and skills to
document, monitor and evaluate their services. In this newsletter we give an overview of what can be done in this field, taking into account the limited resources of NGOs.
Attention is also given to data collection, the development of European quality standards in harm reduction and…
Policy Paper - Who is paying the price for austerity?
This newsletter is devoted to the urgent issue on the consequences of the austerity policy on public health and harm reduction and presents examples and reports from Correlation partners in the Southern and South Eastern European region.
Greater Meaningful Involvement of People Who Use Drugs
This brochure highlights some of the examples of excellent practices in peer involvement in Europe. 25 years ago, the first peer initiatives were started as innovative means of providing HIV prevention education. Since then, the scope and capacity of peer involvement has significantly increased beyond HIV prevention and health promotion
interventions.
Policy Reform and UNGASS 2016
The most prominent development we can see in global drug policy today is that more and
more players are admitting the need to move away from law-enforcement-dominated approaches in drug policy towards public health approaches. What are the Conventions that have bound the hands of politicians of decision-makers so much?
Spotlight Sexwork
Over a prolonged period, dealing
with the issues raised by sex work
has been a major concern for most
European countries, and many different
legislative frameworks have been
applied or discussed. The current focus on cambatting human trafficking often leads to a total disregard for issues around rights, health and harm reduction, as the
focus is to rescue, rehabilitate and punish.
Meeting Report - Changing the Game - UNAIDS expert consultation
Changing the Game - How can Europe move towards zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths? UNAIDS organized an expert consultation 22-23 January at its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland to talk about this. In the summary report you will find a series of concrete and specific recommendations on how to make data/strategic information more fit for purpose.
Chlamydia control in Europe: literature review
This report brings together published evidence about the prevalence and reproductive tract complications of chlamydia infection, and about the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of chlamydia screening interventions.
Global AIDS response progress reporting 2014
The 2014 Global AIDS response progress reporting (GARPR) guidelines were released on 24 January. The guidelines provide countries with technical guidance on how to measure progress towards the ten targets set in the 2011 United Nations Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS. They include the detailed specifications of the core indicators, the data required, and how data will be interpreted.
Implementation of Community-Based Voluntary Counseling and Testing (CBVCT) Programs and Services; HIV-COBATEST Quantitative Study Report
This report has been elaborated in the context of Work Package 5 of the project “HIV Community-Based Testing Practices in Europe”.The main objectives of the HIV-COBATEST project is to promote early diagnosis of HIV infection in Europe by implementing, building, and evaluating community-based practices in order to increase access to HIV voluntary counseling and testing.
HIV-COBATEST project cross-national survey on the implementation of CBVCT programmes; Quantitative Report
This report has been elaborated in the context of Work Package 4 of the project “HIV Community-Based Testing Practices in Europe”. The main objective is to describe the implementation of Community Based Voluntary Counseling and Testing (CBVCT) programmes in Europe in order to gain a thorough understanding of the “community-based approach” in Europe.
Who Makes Money on Epidemics of HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis in Ukraine
With this report AntAC’s experts showed how Ukrainian taxpayers’ money allocated for the purchase of HIV/AIDS and TB agents end up in the pockets of private intermediary companies. Report also points out a price Ukrainian society pays for corruption in public procurement of drugs – it is life and health of thousands of Ukrainian patients.
Surveillance of human immunodeficiency virus suggests that younger men who have sex with men are at higher risk of infection, European Union, 2003 to 2012
In 2012, newly reported human immunodeficiency virus diagnoses in the European Union /European Economic Area remained stable at around 30,000 cases. Since 2003, cases in men who have sex with men (MSM) aged 20 to 29 years-old doubled, while the proportion of late presenters in this group remained stable.
Combined reporting - Monitoring implementation of the Dublin Declaration on Partnership to Fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia: 2012 progress report
The 2004 Dublin Declaration emphasised HIV as an important political priority for countries in Europe and Central Asia. Monitoring of progress in implementing of the declaration began in 2007. In 2012, ECDC harmonised data collection with UNAIDS, WHO, UNICEF and EMCDDA. The series of ten reports and eight evidence briefs present the main findings, discusses key issues, assesses progress since…
Civil society - Monitoring implementation of the Dublin Declaration on Partnership to Fight HIV/AIDS in Europe and Central Asia: 2012 progress report
The 2004 Dublin Declaration emphasised HIV as an important political priority for countries in Europe and Central Asia. Monitoring of progress in implementing of the declaration began in 2007. In 2012, ECDC harmonised data collection with UNAIDS, WHO, UNICEF and EMCDDA. The series of ten reports and eight evidence briefs present the main findings, discusses key issues, assesses progress since…