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Digital Skills Training Manual for Organisations Working in HIV & Viral Hepatitis

This manual developed in the framework of the EU4Health BOOST Project will guide you through the landscape of digital tools and services designed for harm reduction, providing practical insights and strategies to effectively leverage these resources in your outreach efforts. Additionally, a multilingual compendium of relevant digital harm reduction tools will be made available, enabling harm reduction organizations to broaden the reach of their services and facilitate data collection. By leveraging these digital resources, organizations can effectively expand their outreach, engage with diverse communities, and improve the overall impact of their service efforts.

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Monitoring drug trends in the digital environment: New methods, challenges and the opportunities provided by automated approaches

Developments in information technology have impacted on all areas of modern life and in particular facilitated the growth of globalisation in commerce and communication. Within the drugs area this means that both drugs discourse and drug markets have become increasingly digitally enabled. In response to this, new methods are being developed that attempt to research and monitor the digital environment. Read more

First Digital Platform to Track and Prevent Drug Overdoses in Texas Launches

The rate of opioid and other drug overdoses is on the rise in Texas, but there has been no statewide system to collect overdose data—until now. Read more