This is why collaboration is key to tackling this growing crisis, and one powerful way to address the epidemic -- which is why members of the SIG team were grateful to partner with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Dr. Daliah Heller, who shared their opioid overdose response video and training on Naloxone in both English and Russian so that the SIG leadership could include it in SIG's couples-based HIV/STI and overdose prevention interventions for project PACT in NYC and Renaissance in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Project PACT is a couples-based STI/HIV Prevention for drug-involved men in community corrections in New York City. Project Renaissance, based out of the Global Health Research Center of Central Asia (GHRCCA), is a couples-based HIV/STI prevention in Kazakhstan for drug-involved couples in Kazakhstan. In fact, through project Renaissance, SIG and GHRCCA were instrumental in expanding the use of Naloxone in Kazakhstan among both couples and medical providers, providing training on its administration.