• Need to strengthen capacity of KP/VP CSOs to manage activities and funds directly, and more resources are needed for the engagement of peer educators in community activities and in training to be able to work as legal services providers and peer paralegals. [...] The purpose of the assessment is to assess the impact of the human rights interventions on uptake, access, and retention of HIV services, with attention to the quality, scale-up and sustainability of programmatic implementation. [...] Key Recommendations for HIV Program Governance and Implementation • The human rights working group should be reactivated or reconstituted, perhaps as a sub-group of the HIV working group, and meet regularly to discuss and coordinate ongoing implementation of the five-year plan and of programs to remove human rights-related barriers to HIV services. [...] Although broad anti-stigma and discrimination legislation appears to be out of reach in Benin for now due to a lack of government support and lack of capacity among CSOs to develop and implement a strategy for legislative advocacy, expanding the number of key and vulnerable population peer educators and peer paralegals with a community (rather than health clinic) focus would support the broader go. [...] With the opening of the facility should come opportunities for closer engagement and education of police and discussion of the need for further services, including facilities in other parts of the city and country, and of the possibility of take- home methadone supplies.
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