Training and Guidelines Development

PIRT is actively involved in providing training to health care workers, law enforcement personnel and researchers. PIRT trainers have conducted courses in Australia, Indonesia, Iran, Taiwan and Cambodia.

Broadly, training programs focus on HIV prevention and harm reduction for injecting drug users. Areas of training expertise include:

drug treatment, in particular, substitution treatment
needle and syringe programs
outreach to injecting drug users
HIV prevention and harm reduction in prison
monitoring and evaluation
research dissemination

PIRT has produced a training manual for the World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office (WHO WPRO). This manual is expected to be available for download from the WHO WPRO website in early 2007.

PIRT is currently writing guidelines for drug detoxification management and drug dependency treatment in closed settings in South-East Asia. This project is funded by WHO WPRO and completion is expected by mid-2007.