This page contains a listing of national harm reduction guidelines in Europe, along with some international standards and guidelines. The documents, along with a download link where available, are provided.
| Country | Name of the guideline in English — if available — and year of publishing | Language and download link (if available) | Interventions covered | Basis of the guideline (where known) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | No information available. | ||||
| Bulgaria | No information available. | ||||
| Czech Republic | 1. Testing infections among drug users in low threshold (2007) | Download document (Czech, PDF) | |||
| Denmark | No information available. | ||||
| Estonia | No information available. | ||||
| Germany | No information available. | ||||
| Ireland | No information available. | ||||
| Greece | No information available. | ||||
| Spain | 1. Best Practice Manual for drug users using emergency centres (2005) | Download document (Spanish, PDF) | |||
| France | 1. Infectious risk reduction among injecting drug users (2009) | Download document (French, PDF) | |||
| Italy | 1. Harm Reduction Guidelines (2000) | Download document (Italian, PDF) | |||
| Cyprus | No information available. | ||||
| Latvia | No information available. | ||||
| Lithuania | 1. Harm reduction programmes (2006) | Download document (Lithuanian, PDF) | |||
| 2. Methodological guidelines of outreach workers (2007) | Download document (Lithuanian, PDF) | ||||
| 3. Mobile services especially for HIV-AIDS vulnerable youth (2005) | Download document (Lithuanian, PDF) | ||||
| Luxembourg | No information available. | ||||
| Hungary | 1. Professional guideline for low threshold services in the scope of the basic social care for addicts (2008) | Download document (Hungarian, PDF) | |||
| Malta | No information available. | ||||
| The Netherlands | No information available. | ||||
| Austria | No information available. | ||||
| Poland | No information available. | ||||
| Portugal | 1. Guia para intervenção em Redução de Riscos e Minimização de Danos (2009) | ||||
| Romania | No information available. | ||||
| Slovenia | No information available. | ||||
| Slovakia | No information available. | ||||
| Finland | No information available. | ||||
| Sweden | No information available. | ||||
| United Kingdom | 1. Needle and syringe programmes: providing people who inject drugs with injecting equipment (2009) | Download document (English, PDF) | |||
| 2. Guidance for the Prevention, Testing, Treatment and Management of Hepatitis C in Primary Care (2007) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| 3. A guide for all professionals working within an outreach setting (2009) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| 4. Good practice in harm reduction (2008) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| 5. Reducing drug-related deaths - guidance for drug-treatment providers (2004) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| 6. Drug overdose: prevention and response - guidance for helplines (2004) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| 7. Guidelines for services providing injecting equipment: Best practice recommendations for commissioners and injecting equipment provision (IEP) services in Scotland (Scottish Government,2010) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| Croatia | No information available. | ||||
| Turkey | No information available. | ||||
| Norway | No information available. | ||||
| International | 1. Policy guidelines for collaborative TB and HIV services for injecting and other drug users (WHO, 2008) | Download document (English, PDF) | |||
| 2. Technical Guide for countries to set targets for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care for injecting drug users (WHO, UNODC, UNAIDS, 2009) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| 3. Advocacy Guide: HIV&AIDS prevention among injecting drug users (WHO, UNAIDS, UNODC, 2004) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| 4. Policy and programming guide for HIV&AIDS prevention and care among injecting drug users (WHO, 2005) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| 5. Guide to starting and managing needle and syringe programmes (WHO, UNAIDS, UNODC, 2007) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| 6. Guidance on testing and counselling for HIV in settings attended by people who inject drugs (WHO, UNAIDS, 2009) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| 7. Guidelines on providing integrated outreach services (Correlation, 2007) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| 8. Guidelines for testing HIV, viral hepatitis and other infections in injecting drug users (EMCDDA, 2010) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| 9. HIV testing guidance (ECDC, 2010) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| 10. Data-collection Protocol for Specialist Harm Reduction Agencies (Correlation, 2008) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| 11. ECDC-EMCDDA joint guidance - Prevention and control of infectious diseases among people who inject drugs (2011) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| 12. Ontario needle exchange programs: Best practice recommendations (2006) | Download document (English, PDF) | ||||
| 13. Standards Kontakt- und Anlaufstellen (Info drog Suisse 2011) | Download document (German, PDF) | ||||
