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The Public Health Program works closely with individual Soros foundations to implement policies and support local organizations. Find out more about Soros foundations.

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AIDS Information and Support Center (Estonia)
The center runs three separate harm reduction projects in Estonia: one a needle exchange program (NEP) mainly serving IDUs, one focusing on sex workers, and the third a prison project.

AIDS InfoShare (Russia)
Provides Russian individuals and organizations with the tools they need to fight HIV/AIDS and STDs and to promote human rights in the health system.

Anti-AIDS Penza (Russia)
The organization operates a needle exchange project that exchanges more than 8,000 syringes a week in the Russian city of Penza. It also conducts outreach among sex workers.

Association Anti-HIV (Moldova)
The association operates harm reduction programs in Balti, Chisinau, Faleshti and Orhei-the Moldovan cities with the highest rate of incidence of HIV/AIDS registered among IDUs.

Drogart
A harm reduction resource center based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

DrugUsers.ru
DrugUsers.ru is an online, Russian-speaking community that provides unbiased, timely information regarding drugs, drug-related political decisions, and harm reduction developments.

Humanitarian Action (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Humanitarian Action works with drug users, street children, sex workers, and other vulnerable groups in St. Petersburg, Russia, to prevent the spread of disease, and to promote human and legal rights.

Latvian AIDS Information Net
The network consolidates the organizations that are dealing with HIV/AIDS in Latvia.

MONAR Krakow Drugs Project (Poland)
Four separate harm reduction projects are operated out of MONAR's office in Krakow: a needle exchange program, a harm reduction information clearinghouse, a prison project, and a sex worker initiative.

Poltava Charity Anti-AIDS Foundation (Ukraine)
The foundation's goal is to introduce new approaches to the problem of HIV infection, through preventive measures, recovery, and the social rehabilitation of HIV infected persons.

Russian Harm Reduction Network
The network coordinates efforts in the development and promotion of drug-related harm reduction as an approach to preserve public health in Russia. It provides educational and technical assistance to organizations carrying out harm reduction programs, seeks to improve the legislative basis for harm reduction, builds the sustainability of programs, and promotes the interests of Russian harm reduction on the international level.

Sananim (Czech Republic)
The project operates in central Prague and surrounding areas, offering counseling, crisis intervention, referrals, basic health care, and social work services in addition to needle exchange. Note: this website is currently only available in Czech.

The Siberian Initiative (Russia)
An NGO based in Barnaul, Russia that focuses on preventing the spread of and reducing the harm caused by HIV/AIDS through information, training, and counseling projects.

Ukrainian Harm Reduction Association
The association helps coordinate activities among more than 25 harm reduction programs from across Ukraine in an effort to promote effective and humane responses to injecting drug use and HIV.

Users Help Organization (Croatia)
Based in Zagreb, UHO is Croatia’s first user-led activist and harm reduction organization.

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