Lawlor, Cale
Gogia, Marine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1476-0812
Kirtadze, Irma
Stvilia, Keti
Jikia, Guranda
Zurashvili, Tamar
Funding for this research was provided by:
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Article History
Received: 18 February 2021
Accepted: 21 July 2021
First Online: 28 July 2021
Declarations
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: Study protocol is based on intervention protocol, and questionnaire (administrated by an interviewer) was the same between NSP and PDI participants. Two types of informed consent forms were provided: consent to participate and consent to recruit other peers. The protocol and all forms, including consent forms, were submitted to the Commission of Bioethical Issues, Health Research Union (HRU, IRB 00009520-47 Tashkenti Street, Tbilisi) for consideration of study participants rights. The ethics commission of Health Research Union is registered in the Registry of Human Rights Ethics Commission.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. The harm reduction project is a part of the National HIV Prevention Programme, supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.