Caribbean Civil Society Promising Practices Series
“Tek it to Dem 2” : An outreach programme for street homeless drug users
Globally HIV prevention efforts have focused on injecting drug users, one of the highest risk populations for HIV. While injecting drug use is not widespread throughout the Caribbean, some researchers have found that HIV prevalence in crack cocaine smoking populations is almost as high as those found in injecting drug users. When the NCDA conducted a pilot project reaching homeless substance users in Kingston in 2009, 9 out of 11 tested HIV positive at one location. Homeless HIV positive drug users are often very difficult for health services to locate for follow-up or referral appointments because they sleep under bridges or on gully banks. Ensuring HIV positive drug users adhere to HIV medicines is one of the biggest challenges for outreach services. Most people who use crack need basic services such as food and shelter before they can begin to think about HIV prevention.
Through a CVC/COIN Community Grant, the Jamaica National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) has integrated peer education and care packages into its Tek it to Dem project.
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Caribbean Civil Society Promising Practices Series
Empowerment and Outreach : A peer education project for transgender sex workers
Globally, transgender women who engage in sex work are one of the populations most vulnerable to HIV and most in need of prevention, treatment and care. In 2011, PANCAP/CVC-COIN surveyed 90 transgender and transvestite sex workers in Santo Domingo and Santiago. We found that many transgender sex workers are coerced into their first sexual experience, and many start sex work at age 16. For a third, primary education is their highest level of education, and while two thirds start secondary school, only half of those actually finish. Eighty percent have been arrested or detained by the police and thirty-six percent have exchanged sexual favours with the police to avoid arrest.
Through a CVC/COIN Community Grant, The Community of Trans-Transvestite Dominican Sex Workers (CONTRAVETD) has been reaching Dominican and Haitian transgender sex workers with empowerment and prevention messages.
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Caribbean Civil Society Promising Practices Series
Empower to Prevent HIV : A sex-worker led intervention with police
Human Rights Watch’s 2004 Report, “Hated to Death”, put the international spotlight on Jamaica and evidenced how police abuse and other human rights violations are fueling the HIV epidemic in sex workers, men who have sex with men, and people living with HIV, and impeding the government’s own HIV prevention efforts. Nine years later, Jamaican sex workers still say the police make their life in the streets miserable by demanding free sexual services, verbally abusing them and extorting money. But slowly, things are starting to change.
Through a CVC/COIN Community Grant, The Sex Worker Association of Jamaica (SWAJ) has been building its capacity and its relationship with the police force in an exciting partnership model.
To read this Promising Practice click here
Work for US !
We are still hiring for a bi-lingual M&E Assistant in the Dominican Republic. Check out our webpage for further information
Copyright © *|2013|* *|LIST:CVC COIN|*, All rights reserved.
The Caribbean Vulnerabilised Groups Project is a five-year regional project which responds to HIV and AIDS among Caribbean sex workers, men who have sex with men, socially excluded youth, drug users and prisoners.
The Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) and El Centro de Orientación e Investigación Integral (COIN) have come together to implement this project as sub-recipients of a Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Grant provided by the Global Fund to Fight Malaria, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Our mailing address is :
coincvc chez gmail.com
Caribbean Civil Society Promising Practices Series
“Tek it to Dem 2” : An outreach programme for street homeless drug users
Globally HIV prevention efforts have focused on injecting drug users, one of the highest risk populations for HIV. While injecting drug use is not widespread throughout the Caribbean, some researchers have found that HIV prevalence in crack cocaine smoking populations is almost as high as those found in injecting drug users. When the NCDA conducted a pilot project reaching homeless substance users in Kingston in 2009, 9 out of 11 tested HIV positive at one location. Homeless HIV positive drug users are often very difficult for health services to locate for follow-up or referral appointments because they sleep under bridges or on gully banks. Ensuring HIV positive drug users adhere to HIV medicines is one of the biggest challenges for outreach services. Most people who use crack need basic services such as food and shelter before they can begin to think about HIV prevention.
Through a CVC/COIN Community Grant, the Jamaica National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) has integrated peer education and care packages into its Tek it to Dem project.
To read this Promising Practice click here
Caribbean Civil Society Promising Practices Series
Empowerment and Outreach : A peer education project for transgender sex workers
Globally, transgender women who engage in sex work are one of the populations most vulnerable to HIV and most in need of prevention, treatment and care. In 2011, PANCAP/CVC-COIN surveyed 90 transgender and transvestite sex workers in Santo Domingo and Santiago. We found that many transgender sex workers are coerced into their first sexual experience, and many start sex work at age 16. For a third, primary education is their highest level of education, and while two thirds start secondary school, only half of those actually finish. Eighty percent have been arrested or detained by the police and thirty-six percent have exchanged sexual favours with the police to avoid arrest.
Through a CVC/COIN Community Grant, The Community of Trans-Transvestite Dominican Sex Workers (CONTRAVETD) has been reaching Dominican and Haitian transgender sex workers with empowerment and prevention messages.
To read this Promising Practice click here
Caribbean Civil Society Promising Practices Series
Empower to Prevent HIV : A sex-worker led intervention with police
Human Rights Watch’s 2004 Report, “Hated to Death”, put the international spotlight on Jamaica and evidenced how police abuse and other human rights violations are fueling the HIV epidemic in sex workers, men who have sex with men, and people living with HIV, and impeding the government’s own HIV prevention efforts. Nine years later, Jamaican sex workers still say the police make their life in the streets miserable by demanding free sexual services, verbally abusing them and extorting money. But slowly, things are starting to change.
Through a CVC/COIN Community Grant, The Sex Worker Association of Jamaica (SWAJ) has been building its capacity and its relationship with the police force in an exciting partnership model.
To read this Promising Practice click here
Work for US !
We are still hiring for a bi-lingual M&E Assistant in the Dominican Republic. Check out our webpage for further information
Copyright © *|2013|* *|LIST:CVC COIN|*, All rights reserved.
The Caribbean Vulnerabilised Groups Project is a five-year regional project which responds to HIV and AIDS among Caribbean sex workers, men who have sex with men, socially excluded youth, drug users and prisoners.
The Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition (CVC) and El Centro de Orientación e Investigación Integral (COIN) have come together to implement this project as sub-recipients of a Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat Grant provided by the Global Fund to Fight Malaria, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Our mailing address is :
coincvc chez gmail.com
