APMG Global Projects

1. Developing guidance document for WHO on responding to HIV in emergencies and natural disasters (more)
2. Policy mapping, national strategy development and country-level technical assistance to support increased access to opiods for drug substitution and pain relief (more)
3. Sponsoring and editing a special supplement of the International Journal on Drug Policy on coverage of prevention and care services for drug users (more)
4. Measuring coverage of HIV prevention and care services for injecting drug users (more)
5. Assisting the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in its response to HIV/AIDS  & TB (more)
6. Assistance to WHO in the development of a 5-year global plan for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care (more)
7. Development of training curriculum for WHO: RAPID (Rapid Acceleration of HIV Prevention in Districts) (more)
8. Training Curricula and Manuals for HIV Prevention Among Vulnerable Populations (more)
9. UNAIDS report to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (more)
10. Responding to Concentrated HIV/AIDS Epidemics (more)
11. Best Practices Guide to High-Coverage Harm Reduction Interventions (more)
12. Harm Reduction Coverage (UNODC) (more)
13. Harm Reduction Coverage (OSI) (more)
14. HIV/AIDS Chapter of World Drug Report 2005 (more)
15. Global environmental scan of issues relevant to PSI programming on drug use and HIV (more)

Project summaries:

1. Project title: Developing guidance document for WHO on responding to HIV in emergencies and natural disasters

Contract period: March - August 2008
Client: WHO Geneva
Consultants: Lou McCallum, Andrew Doupe
Tasks

• Prepare a guidance document on using the WHO IMAI training package in conflict and emergency settings

2. Project title: Policy mapping, national strategy development and country-level technical assistance to support increased access to opiods for drug substitution and pain relief

Contract period: December 2008 - present
Client: DFID/Temple University, Philadelphia
Consultants: Dave Burrows,
Tasks

• Prepare a guidance documents on policy barriers to wider access to opoids for drug substitution and pain relief
• Work with DFID and PEPFAR to select initial countries for policy and TA assistance
• Work with counties to identify and overcome legal and policy barriers

3. Project title: Sponsoring and editing a special supplement of the International Journal on Drug Policy on coverage of HIV prevention and care services for drug users

Contract period: June 2007 - June 2008
Client: Self-funded
Consultants: Dave Burrows, Mukta Sharma
Tasks

• Call for articles on measurement of coverage of HIV prevention and care services among drug users
• Select and edit articles

4. Project title: Measuring coverage of HIV/AIDS prevention and care services for injecting drug users

Contract period: March - August 2007
Client: UNODC, Vienna
Consultants: Dave Burrows, Katya Burns, Andrey Zheluk, Ruth Birgin
Tasks

• Desk review in nine countries: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Krygyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, India, China & the Russian Feredation
• Site visits in each country to meet with officials to collect baseline data

5. Project title: Assisting the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in its response to HIV/AIDS  & TB

Contract period: April 2006 – Present
Client: ICRC
Consultants: Lou McCallum, in collaboration with independent consultant, Julia Cabassi
Tasks

• Phase 1: Map out a plan for the participation of ICRC staff in the identification of issues relating to HIV and TB for victims of conflict. (Completed)
• Phase 2: Promote discussion within the organisation about the range of possible responses to HIV and TB and develop a global policy
• Phase 3: Work with the organisation to embed the policy in practice through a range of communication, training and other capacity development strategies

6. Project title: Assistance to WHO in the development of a 5-year global plan for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care

Contract period: March – June 2006 (Completed)
Client: WHO HIV/AIDS Department
Consultant: Lou McCallum
Tasks

• Assistance with internal consultation and drafting of the WHO 5-year plan to work towards universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care, 2006 - 2010.

7. Project title: Development of training curriculum for WHO: RAPID (Rapid Acceleration of HIV Prevention in Districts)

Contract period: December 2005 – June 2006 (Completed)
Client: WHO HIV/AIDS Department
Consultants: Lou McCallum, Jack Wallace
Tasks

• Develop a training curriculum to be adapted for use in local jurisdictions (districts, oblasts, sub-regions within countries). Modules include:
  • A one-day mapping and mobilising workshop for district health officers
  • A two-day district level prevention planning workshop
  • A three-day workshop on reaching the groups most affected by HIV/AIDS
  • A four-day workshop on prevention and treatment preparedness in communities

8. Project title: Training Curricula and Manuals for HIV Prevention Among Vulnerable Populations

Contract period: 2003 – Present
Client: World Health Organization
Consultants: Lou McCallum, Dave Burrows, Nick Walsh
Tasks

• Research and write and/or manage team of researchers and writers to develop:
  • Starting, managing and scaling up needle-syringe programs Global guide (In Development)
  • Where sex work, drug injecting and HIV overlap: practical issues for reducing vulnerability, risk and harm Global guide (In Press)
  • Training Manual for HIV Prevention Outreach to Injecting Drug Users Geneva. 2004:
• Advocacy Guide: HIV/AIDS Prevention for Injecting Drug Users(co-published with UNAIDS and UNODC). Geneva/ Vienna 2004: http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/idu/iduadvocacyguide/en/index.html

Links to these publications will be provided when they are published by WHO.

9. Project title: UNAIDS report to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Contract period: March/April 2006
Client: UNAIDS
Consultants: Lou McCallum & Julie Hamblin
Tasks

• Synthesise available data on HIV/AIDS and Indigenous Peoples
• Draft the first report from UNAIDS to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues .pdf (English) UNPFII site (Other languages)
  

10. Project Title: Responding to Concentrated HIV/AIDS Epidemics

Contract period: 2005
Client: Open Society Institute
Consultants: Mukta Sharma, Lou McCallum, Dave Burrows
Tasks:

• Manage project to strengthen resource mobilization, implementation, monitoring and evaluation in concentrated HIV/AIDS epidemics:
  • Phase 1: Organise, facilitate and report on global meeting in NY.
  • Phase 2: Data collection on concentrated HIV/AIDS epidemics for report on 17 countries.

Both reports can be accessed here: (Phase 1 report is an annex to report from Phase 2: Is there anybody left in the general population? A scan of information available on the context of HIV transmission and risk for vulnerable groups in seventeen countries with concentrated HIV epidemics. APMG/ OSI. Sydney/ NY 2005)

11. Project Title: Best Practice Guide to High-Coverage Harm Reduction Interventions

Contract period:2003-05
Client: UNAIDS
Consultant: Dave Burrows

A link to this publication will be provided when it is published by UNAIDS

12. Project Title: Harm Reduction Coverage (UNODC)

Contract period: 2005
Client: UNODC
Consultant: Dave Burrows
Tasks:

• Provide presentation and participate in UN Expert Group Meeting on Measuring and Increasing Coverage of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Services for Injecting Drug Users in Vienna.

Presentation can be accessed here.

13. Project Title: Harm Reduction Coverage (OSI)

Contract period:2005-06
Client: OSI
Consultant: Dave Burrows
Tasks

• (With Beth Israel Medical Center and National Development Research Institutes of NY, USA)
• Develop Delphi research instrument and carry out research into coverage targets for harm reduction programs
   

14. Project Title: HIV/AIDS Chapter of World Drug Report 2005

Contract period: 2004-05
Client: OSI
Consultants: Dave Burrows, Nick Walsh
Tasks

• Manage research and writing of HIV/AIDS chapter of World Drug Report 2005.

Report can be accessed at: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/world_drug_report.html

15. Project Name: Global environmental scan of issues relevant to PSI programming on drug use & HIV/AIDS

Contract period: 2004
Client: Population Services International
Consultant: Dave Burrows
Tasks

• Research and write scan of issues relevant to PSI programming on drug use & HIV/AIDS prevention including examination of PSI programs, literature review, report and recommendations.
• Included site visits to Russian Federation, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Thailand, China.

Report for in-house use only

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