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Dept for International Development

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Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if he will list the harm reduction projects in the Russian Federation that received financial support from his Department in each of the last seven years. [179940] Mr. Gareth Thomas: DFID has provided financial support for the following projects related to harm reduction in the past seven years. The projects marked with an asterisk have supported the provision of harm reduction services to high risk groups: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Project title Purpose Duration DFID funding (£) Open Health Institute Harm To reduce the transmission of July 2001- August 2004 3,500,000 Reduction Bridging Project* HIV among injecting drug users and commercial sex workers in OHI-supported harm reduction sites in the Russian Federation Knowledge for Action for HIV/AIDS To create the knowledge base on September 2002- August 2005 1,500,000 in the Russian Federation HIV in the Russian Federation necessary to guide effective policy and intervention United Nations Fund for To reduce the incidence of June 2002- November 2004 1,125,000 International Partnerships: HIV/STIs among young people, Comprehensive Partnership especially girls and young Strategies for HIV/STI Prevention women, by ensuring the among Young People in the Russian availability of and access to Federation* information, education, health services, counselling for HIV, testing and commodities required for young people to develop and exercise effective life skills Development of a Public To develop sustainable, high September 1998- March 2004 981,146 Health-based Approach to the quality STI services in Samara Prevention of Sexually and disseminate successful Transmitted Diseases in Samara* approaches at federal level Prevention of HIV/AIDS among To improve and develop April 1998- April 2003 775,334 Injecting Drug Users in preventative public education Sverdlovsk Oblast* programmes on HIV/AIDS, with a special focus on injecting drug use UNAIDS Regional Harm Reduction To strengthen the capacity of September 2000- November 2002 450,000 Task Force: Capacity Expansion the UNAIDS Regional Task Force on HIV prevention among injecting drug users in Eastern Europe Comprehensive Targeted HIV Design phase. Planned purpose October 2002- April 2003 337,787 Prevention and Control was to establish integrated Demonstration Project (Design programmes of targeted HIV Phase) prevention activities in two localities at a scale sufficient to control the epidemic and in order to convince policymakers that such investment is worthwhile. Building Police Support for Harm To involve the police as an August 2001- March 2004 489,891 Reduction integral part of harm reduction Assistance to the World Bank for Technical assistance for the May 2000- April 2002 200,000 the Russia TB/AIDS Control design of a $150 million Project World Bank loan on tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS control. Harm Reduction Project To reduce transmission of HIV December 1999- March 2001 35,949 among injecting drug users in Sverdlovsk by developing a co-ordinated harm reduction programme 11th International Conference on To assist in developing a April 2000- April 2001 60,081 the Reduction of Drug-Related large-scale project on reducing Harm: Project Planning Activities drug related harm in Russia Harm Reduction Conference, New To provide funding for 20 April 2001- October 2001 41,405 Delhi Russian delegates to attend the Harm Reduction Conference in New Delhi _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

422 c1489-90W; 179940

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Development aid Drugs Disease control HIV/AIDS Misuse Russia

Contains statistics

Yes

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