
Harm Reduction in Eastern Europe & the Former Soviet Union
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Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN)
Formerly called the Central and Eastern European Harm Reduction Network, EHRN supports the development of harm reduction by working with NGOs, governments, and international organizations to provide information, best-practices models, training, and other resources. Based in Vilnius, Lithuania, EHRN represents more than 100 organizations across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
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.
Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU)
HCLU promotes the fundamental rights and principles laid down by the Hungarian Constitution and by international agreements, giving pride of place to the protection of personal freedoms, of human dignity, and of privacy.
International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine
The alliance supports community action against HIV/AIDS; develops community support for people with HIV and those close to them; and seeks to reduce the stigmatization of, and improve services for, people with HIV and those groups most vulnerable to HIV.
Light of Hope
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.
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.

