Social AIDS Committee Offers Harm Reduction Training Resources Online

The Social AIDS Committee, a long-term partner of OSI's International Harm Reduction Development Program, has launched a website that identifies trainers and technical advisors working in the area of harm reduction and HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Asia. It is available in English, Russian, and Polish versions at www.skaids.org.

The website provides information on a variety of trainings and study tours offered by the Social AIDS Committee’s Training Center. It is addressed to a wide-ranging audience including service providers, civil society organizations, and doctors and other health care providers working in the area of harm reduction and HIV/AIDS. The site offers trainings, seminars, and internship programs to specialists from various regions on the following topics:

• ARV therapy for active drug users; medical, psychological, social aspects; ARV commencement, adherence
• Reproductive Health: HIV+ women; discordant couples, methods of assisted reproduction (“sperm washing,” etc.); prevention of STIs and HCV, etc.
• Mental Health and HIV/AIDS: HIV infection and mental health of HIV-infected people
• Harm Reduction in its broad understanding: opioid substitution therapy programs; harm reduction policies
• Pre & Post HIV-Test Counseling: counseling for people living with HIV/AIDS, their partners and families
• Prevention programs for sex workers (women, men, children)
• Rights of People Living with HIV/AIDS including drug use and advocacy
• TOT: training of trainers working in the area of HIV/AIDS

Past activities of the Training Center include:

• Delivering a number of trainings on various topics for IHRD programs in all countries of Eastern Europe, former Soviet Union and Central Asia
• Conducting workshops at Eastern European and Central Asian Conference on HIV/AIDS in Moscow
• Providing trainings at the request of Polish Ministry of Health and National AIDS Center

With many years of experience and outstanding recommendations, all trainers share a commitment to quality workshops and are recognized as top professionals in their field in Poland. For more information, contact office@skaids.org.