The BOOST Project: A Series of Policy Briefs

The HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis epidemics pose a burden to public health in Europe and disproportionately affect people who use drugs and other vulnerable populations that cannot easily access health services.

Within this context, the BOOST project aims to support EU and neighbouring countries in reaching agreed goals of minimising the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis, together with other communicable diseases.

Specifically, the BOOST project supports and strengthens community-based and community-led organisations in providing communicable diseases services as part of comprehensive, people-centred harm reduction strategies.

The BOOST project released a series of policy briefs in support of its objectives:

1. Policy brief: Advancing universal health coverage for people who use drugs in Europe
2. Policy brief: Decriminalize! Drug use and possession for personal use
3. Policy brief: Where there is fruit, there is seed: Scaling up community involvement for integrated, responsive, and sustainable harm reduction