‘Follow the Light’ Improving communicable diseases care for people who use drugs within the Lighthouse networks
Work Package 4 of the Boost Project aims to scale up the implementation of people-centred good practices in HIV/HBV/HCV services for people who use drugs among community-based organisations, with a focus on integrated interventions, expansion of community voluntary testing, and linkage to treatment options. This work package aims to develop four organisations into centres of expertise that function as “Lighthouses” within their region through the build-up of a peer network among them; to support selected local community-based organizations in implementing effective Communicable Diseases Action Plans (CDAPs) that fit with the local context (see example Annex I). The four Lighthouses worked on coaching sessions and training in testing, linkage to care, and
planning of activities and services provision in communicable diseases to organizations working with people who use drugs, aiming at an increase in testing and linkage to care for people in contact with these organizations. This document is a compilation of four evaluation reports of the Communicable Diseases Action Plans developed in cooperation among Lighthouses and organizations.
