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RETA 6321 project issues presented to ADB external evaluator |
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Posted on October 31 2008 PRIMEX was visited, on 8 September 2008, by Mr. Clement Cham-Kam, an external evaluator engaged by ADB to review the umbrella regional technical assistance project on Fighting HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (RETA 6321) and its Subproject 5: Strengthening Country Response to HIV/AIDS in High-Risk Groups in the Philippines, providing an opportunity for surfacing issues and concerns associated with its implementation. PRIMEX’s Deputy Team Leaders, Dr. Jose Narciso M. Sescon and Ms. Ma. Lourdes S. Marin presented an overview of the Philippine Subproject and its two components, whichdeal with injecting drug users (IDUs) and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), and discussed issues and challenges faced during Project implementation. They discussed, among others, how State policy contradictions (particularly between RA 9165, An Act Instituting the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, and RA 8504, the Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998) have constrained the delivery of a comprehensive package of interventions aimed at HIV/AIDS prevention to IDUs and, as a result, inhibited the development of a comprehensive response framework reducing harm and risks among those who inject drugs. “Because of these constraints, the closest that our Team could do is just to demonstrate the proper way of cleaning needles,” Dr Sescon said. Project Director and PRIMEX President/CEO Elvira Ablaza explained that the IDU harm reduction pilot project being implemented by the Team in two barangays in Zamboanga City was intended to help in the formulation of harm reduction guidelines for local government units in other parts of the country. However, despite the non-inclusion of a ‘needles and syringes’ element in the pilot project’s service package, positive results have been reported by the community health outreach workers fielded by HDES, the local NGO partner of PRIMEX, to work with IDU participants. Relatedly, an end-of-project assessment of the Zamboanga pilot project is ongoing and the report will be ready by early December 2008. |
