Evaluation of Harm Reduction Service Delivery in Cebu City, Philippines (2013–2015)
The Kamagayan Comprehensive Care Center (KC3) clients report being very satisfied with the comprehensive package of health services offered under the BCP and they feel welcome and accepted at the KC3. Community members in Kamagayan, including family...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26425526/evaluation-harm-reduction-service-delivery-cebu-city-philippines-20132015 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24750 |
| Summary: | The Kamagayan Comprehensive Care Center (KC3) clients report being very
satisfied with the comprehensive package of health services
offered under the BCP and they feel welcome and accepted at
the KC3. Community members in Kamagayan, including family
members of the KC3 clients, also praise the service as an
excellent intervention. Virtually all key stakeholders
interviewed noted that the KC3 team had performed especially
well in building trust between clients and their health
service providers, families, and community. In that sense,
community-based advocacy efforts were successful at
generating an enabling environment for service delivery. The
KC3 clients, family members, and community representatives
also appreciated efforts from the KC3 team to promote demand
reduction through counseling, Narcotics Anonymous (NA)
sessions, and privileged access to the Argao Treatment and
Rehabilitation Center (TRC). There is great demand and
genuine interest among the KC3 clients and patients’ clients
to become peer educators and provide support to PWID. The
professionalization of PWID through peer educator roles has
also reportedly reduced stigma and discrimination and
increased acceptance of PWID in the community. Should
services for PWID be scaled up in Cebu and beyond,
recruiting a workforce of peer educators should not be a
critical challenge, an important lesson learned for future
harm reduction projects in the Philippines. |
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