This handbook offers concrete suggestions and practical examples of activities for women who use drugs. It can also just serve as inspiration for other types of initiatives and projects. The aim is to increase the uptake of services by women who use drugs in the medium term.
To make these suggestions for specific activities as practical as possible, we have developed them in the form of fact sheets, based on the knowledge and experience of women working in women-specific organisations.

The Policy Paper is a result of a comparative 28-country report conducted by the COBATEST Network in 2022-2023.

Despite their valuable contributions, CSOs providing community HIV testing services encounter several challenges in their efforts to expand community HIV testing: inconsistent legal frameworks non-inclusion in national HIV plans, sustainability and funding, underutilization of data, provider training

To address these challenges and maximize the impact of community HIV testing efforts, the Policy Paper proposes a set of recommendations. 

The Policy Paper is a result of a comparative 28-country report conducted by the COBATEST Network in 2022-2023.

Communities and CSOs play a crucial role in advancing HIV testing initiatives, including HIV self-testing. Despite their efforts, they face specific challenges in implementing HIV self-testing initiatives. These challenges include: inconsistent legal frameworks, non-Inclusion in national HIV plans, lack of availability of HIV self-testing kits, high cost of HIV self-testing kits.