CAZAS is a harm reduction organization works with People Who Use Drugs and other marginalized communities since 1998 in Podgorica, Montenegro. During COVID19, the organization maintains its services, addressing the needs of their communities, despite many limitations…
Ireland’s innovative approach to supporting homeless and drug using populations during COVID-19 saved lives Dublin has outperformed even best-case scenarios for COVID-19 mortality among homeless and drug using populations, according to a new report released today…
COVID-19 and harm reduction in Greece – observations from inside the scenery Background To begin with, we have to consider the condition of the general context which is the social-economic and the cultural one in Greece. A society extremely individualised after all…
What does the life of people experiencing homelessness look like while living in a Sports Hall in Amsterdam?It is hard to imagine that you have to organise your life on 4m2. During my office hours in the Sports Hall, I was fascinated by the tables of visitors and what…
From mid-March to mid-May, Krakow’s Drop-in has been serving its clients, drug users, through a small window in the front door. In this way, they were supported with lunch and hot drinks, needles, syringes and other harm reduction materials. Through the window…
Since shops and facilities were closed on March 18th, 2020 and the Bavaria-wide going-out restrictions came into effect on March 21st, 2020, the situation of drug users and low-threshold facilities has changed a lot: Accommodation options such as Drop-Inns only run in…
CRESCER develops community-based interventions with a harm reduction approach focused on three vulnerable groups – people who use drugs, people who experience homelessness and asylum seekers and refugees – through a set of services, such as outreach teams, Housing…
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We are here as all across Europe struggling to stay open for our clients; drop-in centres got closed for longer stays so clients only get in if allowed by the local authority or get material over the window, many of them are making reserves- taking 4-6 boxes, actually…
On 12th March 2020 schools in Ireland closed to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. Five days later, on 17th March, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar addressed the nation stating that ‘Never will so many ask so much of so few,’ referring to the people on the front line of the…
Our operations are compounded by the funding problems of our services that you are already aware of. Our organization is the only one that has survived the provision of HR services in all of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In accordance with the orders and recommendations of…
Since the arrival of COVID-19 in Barcelona, our clients have been affected by a new reality that is beyond the limits of their access to facilities and services that affect proper socio-health care for their needs and rights. Initially, and in the face of the public…
On a normal day, we would open the DCR at 10 am and most likely staff members would sit with the first users around a warm cup of coffee. But this is not a normal time and “normal days” seem a thing of the past. Nowadays, we still open the DCR at 10am and (among other…
Georgia – 110 cases of COVID-19, till 5,000 under the quarantine measures, no deaths (31.03.2020). From 21 March till 21 April there is announced a state of emergency in the whole territory of the country. Harm reduction programs are being implemented continuously in…
Scotland like the rest of the UK has been in lockdown since 23rd March. Scotland has been preparing contingency plans to respond specifically to people with drug problems for some time, including our own document supported by the Scottish Government and key partners….
Because of the COVID-19 epidemic, the drop-in project in Krakow operates with closed doors. But the entrance to the Drop-in is only partially closed. Luckily, there is a small window on the doors, which we use now as a pharmacy during its night shift. The restrictions…
We started our contingency plan in the week of 10th March to start our adapted work on 13th Friday. We want to keep our services open as long as possible – so we keep a part of the team home at stand-by. In case healthcare providers get ill, we have a backup team. All…
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