PRIDE III Prison Interventions and HIV Prevention Collaboration

The primary objective of this research project is to identify barriers to scale-up of Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) in the justice systems (prisons and probation) in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Georgia, and establish a NIATx learning collaborative to scale-up OAT, and analyze scale-up utilizing latent class growth analyses in people who inject drugs (PWID).

Inclusion Criteria: Aim 1: 1. Quantitative surveys for prison OAT providers * Being 18 years or older * Being currently assigned and working as a probation OAT provider for a probation site 2. ECHO procedures Aim 2: 1. Quantitative surveys for people in probation * Being 18 years or older * Screen yes to opioid injection on the online screener questionnaire * Currently in probation 2. Quantitative surveys for probation and prison officers * Being 18 years or older * Being currently assigned and working as a probation or prison officer at a probation site 3. Focus Groups (People in probation) * Being 18 years or older * Screen yes to opioid injection criteria on the online screener * Currently in probation 4. Focus Groups (Probation and prison officers) * Being 18 years or older * Being currently assigned and working as a probation or prison officer at a probation * Has more than 3 months of field experience * Works at a probation site within 25 kilometers of an OAT site Exclusion Criteria: \-