Drug-Demand Reduction and HIV/AIDS Prevention: A Manual

Social Policy Section
Social Development Division, United Nations ESCAP

Community-based Drug Demand Reduction and HIV/AIDS Prevention: A Manual for Planners, Practitioners, Trainers and Evaluators

ST/ESCAP/1584

The overall drug abuse situation in Asia and the Pacific is deteriorating rapidly. The incidence of HIV infection, leading to AIDS, is also increasing at an alarming rate.

One method that has proved an effective response to those needs is the integrated community-based approach. This method assesses the available resources and needs at the community level, involves the community in developing and implementing appropriate interventions and ascertains sustainable changes through organizing communities, empowerment, training and participatory management.

This Manual, prepared with funding support from the Governments of Australia and the Netherlands, provides programme and project planners and managers at the national and local levels with practical information on the means of applying community-based approaches to drug demand reduction and HIV/AIDS prevention. It has been prepared on the basis of community-based projects undertaken by ESCAP in various countries of the region and discussions with project planners and implementers in those countries over the past three years. Another ESCAP publication on Community-based Drug Demand Reduction provides a report on those projects undertaken in China, India, Nepal, Philippines and Thailand.

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