Community interventions in health problems associated with the consumption of crack cocaine and other substances Financed by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Argentina, this took place between September 2008 and April 2009. The project supported the actions of the “Locos de Avellaneda” in that county, and counseled “Mezclate conmigo” in the district of Lomas de Zamora. Its objective was to address the problems associated with the consumption of crack cocaine and other substances among youth in poor urban sectors. Its [...]
Conversations on the street – Extension of Street work with Young Drug Users in the Barrio de Villa Corina Financed by the company Tannery Fonseca SA, this project was conducted between September 2008 and March 2009. It developed actions to reduce harm associated with drug use in Villa Corina, Avellaneda. The main achievement was to actively involve young people in social vulnerability, with the objective of promoting health care practices and improve their access to comprehensive health care. Tags: Community [...]
New players for new projects. Strengthening of based organizations two municipalities of the Province of Buenos Aires for harm reduction in drug users Financed by the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, this took place between June 2006 and November 2008. The project installed capacity for working with drug users and other hidden populations in community-based organizations, in order to promote the contact with these groups to improve their access to comprehensive health care and promote the adoption of [...]
Developed between August 2006 and November 2007, with funding from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), this gave continuity to the Regional Projects in Southern Cone countries, executed in 2000, 2003 and 2004. In this framework, Intercambios continued implementing intervention programs in the Municipality of Avellaneda, in the localities of Villa Luján, Villa Corina, Corina Monoblocks, Villa Tranquila and Villa Azul. Four lines of work were developed: drug users, youth in vulnerable situations, facilitating access to health [...]
Financed by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Argentina, this project was developed during 2006 in Villa Luján, Avellaneda. Its objective was to promote links between different groups of young people from the generation of art spaces open to the community, promoting the right of production and use of cultural property and the restructuring of networks of relationships between different groups or neighborhood gangs. Tags: community action, debate film, drugs, social networking
Financed by the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, this project took place between August 2004 and August 2005. It considered three lines of work: working directly with drug users, working with the social fabric and the training of field staff, multipliers and health teams. The strategies used were the approach in the context of the street, peer education and development workshops. The community institutions and health were key players in the interagency coordination and organization of community awareness [...]
Financed by the Plan for Strengthening and Promotion of Volunteering, Department for the Promotion of Volunteerism and Civil Society of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, this project took place during 2007 in collaboration with the Association of Women Prostitutes of Argentina (AMMAR) Association of Transvestites, Transsexuals and Transgender (ATTTA), Buenos Aires AIDS Foundation, and La Ponzoña, a group of young people of Barracas Villa 21. In a process of joint identification of issues, collision, codes of language [...]
Financed by the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, this was developed between October 2003 and March 2005. Two harm reduction programs were implemented, oriented at the drug injecting population in the San Fernando and General San Martín localities, between inter-agency cooperation of Intercambios Civil Association, the Social Guidance Centre for Families and Youth of the City of San Fernando and AIDS and HIV and ETS Programme of the Municipality of General San Martín. After completing this project, the [...]





