FHI Releases Final Report on Baltic Sea Regional HIV/AIDS Initiative
The final report for the Baltic Sea HIV/AIDS Regional Initiative under the Implementing AIDS Prevention and Care (IMPACT) Project summarizes the design, strategy, activities and achievements of IMPACT's work in the Baltic Sea Region from October 2000 to September 2004. The report describes individual subprojects and key regional activities in detail.
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Companion Document: Case Studies from St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad, 2006
HIV/AIDS Prevention among IDUs in Lithuania
Through the financial aid of USAID and technical support of FHI's IMPACT Project, the Central and Eastern European Harm Reduction Network released a multilanguage set of HIV/AIDS prevention best practices. The set HIV/AIDS Prevention amongst Injecting Drug Users in Lithuania: Best Practices highlights the lessons learned in Lithuania when working with the socially isolated group of injection drug users (IDU). The set is available with English, Russian and Lithuanian translations.
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Peer Educator Handbook Developed for Latvia
The Handbook for Peer Educators: HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health offers helpful recommendations on planning and implementing HIV/AIDS and reproductive health-focused peer education programs. The report contains the most efficient models for information transfer and making use of methods, which if used properly, can promote changes in risky human behavior.
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Rapid Situation Assessment of Lithuanian Capital Released
As part of a joint venture, the Klaipeda Addiction Treatment Center and FHI's Baltic Sea Program performed a rapid situation assessment of sex workers in Klaipeda, the capital city of Lithuania during September 2003. The report Sex Work Situation in Klaipeda City, Lithuania Report on the Outcomes of the Rapid Situation Assessment Vilnius – Klaipeda, highlights the conditions and behaviors of sex workers and the work norms as they exists between sex workers and clients. The report also identifies local capacity for developing programs to restrict the spread of HIV infection.
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