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Drug Demand Reduction and Health Promotion in Prisons
Kyrgyzstan

PROGECT DURATION: October 2002 through September 2007

DONOR(S): United States Agency for International Development (USAID; www.usaid.gov)

The Drug Demand Reduction Programme (DDRP) is a five-year USAID-funded initiative in Central Asia designed to respond to the dramatic increase in drug use among vulnerable populations in two key countries of a region in which HIV/AIDS is spreading rapidly and primarily through injecting drug use.

Throughout the five-year Programme, Drug Demand Reduction interventions will be implemented in select oblasts of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and the Ferghana Valley region of Kyrgyzstan with the short term goal of 'increased knowledge and skills with respect to the prevention of drug use in select populations'. This is stated as a step toward the long-term goal of a 'decrease in drug use among these select populations'.

PARTNER(S): The Open Society Institute - Kyrgyzstan, Population Services International (PSI), Accord - an affiliate of Street Kids International, Internews, The Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan, The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan.

REGION: Kyrgyzstan