With a total budget of EUR 221 000, which is 80%-funded by Europe, this task force on high-risk groups began working in late-2003.
To better inform and improve screening and prevention, the following decisions were made:
 

• to share know-how and experience,

• to train social workers and provide material assistance with a view toward the long term,

• to assess opportunities for extending this type of experience in other regions of Russia.

The project was completed on 15 December 2005. It will, in addition to individual-level sharing, have enabled material improvements such as the acquisition of a minibus used to disseminate information on prevention to the population, the purchase and installation of condom dispensers and the implementation of appropriate communications tools.

 
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