Acknowledgments

The Guidance Note was developed by consultants Dr Predrag Duric and Timur Abdullaev and John Macauley from UNDP. Further inputs and edits were provided by HIV, Heath and Development (HHD) team members at the Istanbul Regional Hub (IRH) and New York including Dr Rosemary Kumwenda, Mark Dibiase and Boyan Konstantinov. UNDP would also like to thank external reviewers, who provided valuable feedback and comments before and during the validation meeting organized in October 2018: Violeta Andjelkovic, Union of PLHIV, Serbia; Olga Atroshchanka, UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub; Tetiana Deshko, Alliance for Public Health, Ukraine; Miodrag Dragisic, UNDP Montenegro; Vladan Golubovic, CCM Secretary, Montenegro; Farishtamoh Gulova, NGO Equal Opportunities, Tajikistan; Itana Labovic, UNDP Kyrgyzstan; Ekaterina Lukicheva, Open Society Foundations, USA; Natalya Lukyanova, UNDP Ukraine; Zarina Musaeva, UNDP Tajikistan; Sanja Nikolin, Public and Private, Serbia; Nenad Petkovic, UNDP Serbia; Naira Sargsyan, UNAIDS Regional Support Team, the Russian Federation; Gayane Tovmasyan, UNDP Tajikistan; Ilona Yeleneva, Labour and Health Social Initiatives, Ukraine; and Irena Zubkova, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association, Lithuania.