This new publication discusses the need for scaling-up harm reduction services, and more information on our new BOOST project.

In 2023, C-EHRN will start to implement the European Union (EU) co-financed BOOST project, aiming to strengthen and support community-based and community-led harm organisations in providing high-quality communicable disease services to people who use drugs. These include the scaling-up of good practices in communicable disease awareness, prevention, screening/testing and linkage to care, delivered as an integrated part of people-centred harm reduction interventions. The project consortium includes, among others, the Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA) and the European Network of People Who Use Drugs (EuroNPUD).

The publication also contains information from the presentation by Roberto Perez Gayo (C-EHRN Policy Officer) on the BOOST project at INHSU 2022.

As well as this, Free Clinic in Belgium, Podane ruce in Czechia, Villa Maraini in Italy, and the A-Clinic Foundation in Finland are discussed as examples in harm reduction for an integrated HIV/HCV approach.