Eurasian Harm Reduction Network - EHRN Missions, goals & geography

About us

The Eurasian Harm Reduction Network (EHRN) is a regional network with a mission to promote humane, evidence-based harm reduction approaches to drug use, with the aim of improving health and protecting human rights at the individual, community, and societal level.

Specifically during 2010-2014, EHRN seeks to help implement non-discriminating policies for drug users and other vulnerable people in the EHRN territory, and to improve and expand the use of evidence-based interventions and services that target them.


The Network's geographical focus includes Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (CEECA), which consists of 6 sub-regions: the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), Central Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia), South-Eastern Europe (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia), European Countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine), Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia) and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan).

EHRN is signatory of the Code of Good Practice for NGOs Responding to HIV/AIDS. It is granted a Special Consultative NGO Status by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).

 

EHRN is a member of the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) and the European Commission's Civil Society Forum on Drugs and HIV/AIDS in the European Union. EHRN also implements joint projects with the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO), International Harm Reduction Development Program (IHRD) of the Open Society Institute, International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA) and others.
 


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