Re: Invitation for proposals on Research Study: Continuum of Care (CoC) for Injecting Drug Users

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Dear FORUM,

Re: /message/8577

I feel strongly about this - organisations directing their work based on their

interest or expertise instead of delivering what is needed by the affected

populations they wish to serve. Saying that there is no model of Continuum of

Care for IDUs living with HIV may be a little far-fetched.

In the 1990's, a model CoC project for IDUs was piloted by and expanded to

several districts of Manipur (Imphal, Churachandpur, Thoubal and others) for

several years. Perhaps it may still be an ongoing project.

This was undertaken through staff hired for the project by the Govt of Manipur

and with technical and financial support from WHO; Oxfam and other international

partners etc . Lets look at what we learnt from that project and build on it to

deliver services - instead of wasting precious resources conducting so-called

research studies over and over again.

[Dear Moderator, please post this as anonymous]