Project Renaissance (2008-2013) 

This five year study is funded by the National Institutes of Drug Abuse (NIDA) to examine the efficacy of a couple-based HIV and Overdose prevention intervention in reducing HIV risk behavior and overdoses. The study is being conducted with 400 injecting drug users and their main sexual partners (N=800) in Kazakhstan. The findings will have important HIV prevention implications for drug users and their main sex partners in Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries.