Burma (Myanmar) Country Program

The aim of the Burma (Myanmar) Country Program is to reduce the transmission of HIV associated with injecting drug use. The project builds on the achievements of the preceding Asia HIV/AIDS Regional Program (ARHP) which established five Effective Approaches Project (EAP) sites. The HAARP Country Program in Burma (Myanmar) is expanding and further strengthening provision of harm reduction services, and supporting the scale up of activities and expansion of sites.

Objectives

The objectives of the Burma (Myanmar) CP are to:

• enhance the policy and legal environment in which the Burma (Myanmar) CP operates.
• provide, via both fixed site & outreach modalities, the expanded harm reduction services that drug users require to keep them free of risk from HIV.
• build community-level management capacity for management of services.
• strengthen Burma (Myanmar) cooperation with regional initiatives to prevent HIV transmission in injecting drug users.

Implementing Partners

The CP is managed by the Burma (Myanmar) office of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). UNODC implements CP activities in collaboration with the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC), Ministry of Health (through the National AIDS Program - NAP), Township Committee members and NGO partners. UNODC are responsible for the development and implementation of annual work plans and budgets that are technically reviewed by the HAARP Technical Support Unit (TSU).