Peer Driven Intervention delivers first results in China

In order to expand coverage of harm reduction by reaching hidden people who inject drugs (PWID) (out of any intervention inclusive of MMT or NSP service), an innovative approach, the Peer Driven Intervention (PDI) is adopted and applied since June 2013 in Chenghua district, one of three sites of CAHR project in China (two in Chengdu city and one in Yunnan) where the pilot project is run by #4 hospital in partnership with AIDS Care China.

PDI concept and methodology are of a “chain-referral” outreach model to educate PWID in the community along with provision of safe injection products and other relevant services to prevent HIV and related diseases spread. PDI approach in Chenghua aims to reach 1000 PWID minimum in communities who are out of MMT in the next 6 months.

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