PRIDE III Prison Interventions and HIV Prevention Collaboration
PRIDE III Prison Interventions and HIV Prevention Collaboration
The primary objective of this research project is to identify barriers to scale-up of Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) in the justice systems (prisons and probation) in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Georgia, and establish a NIATx learning collaborative to scale-up OAT, and analyze scale-up utilizing latent class growth analyses in people who inject drugs (PWID).
Aim 1 consists of the development of NIATx learning collaboratives with prison OAT providers (addiction care specialists or primary care doctors). This aim is an implementation science aim involving the collection of OAT scale-up data from each country's national OAT database, as well as administration of survey to prison narcologists every 6 months.
Aim 2 consists of the development of NIATx learning collaboratives with probation and prison officers in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Moldova, and Georgia. Investigators will collect OAT scale-up data from each member country's national OAT database, and administer a survey to probation officers every 6 months. Investigators will also observe and interview probation clients and staff using ethnographic methods.
Inclusion Criteria:
Aim 1:
Quantitative surveys for prison OAT providers
ECHO procedures
Aim 2:
Quantitative surveys for people in probation
Quantitative surveys for probation and prison officers
Focus Groups (People in probation)
Focus Groups (Probation and prison officers)
Exclusion Criteria:
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david.oliveros@yale.edu202-805-8118
jinhee.kim@yale.edu