Guyana Safer Injection Project (GSIP)

The Guyana SIP (2004–2009) is a Task Order awarded under Initiatives’ USAID TASC2 Global Health indefinite quantity contract. The GSIP is part of the PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief) strategy to reduce the accidental transmission of HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne diseases by improving injection safety and reducing the number of unnecessary injections.

Initiatives’ role is to assess current policy, practices and attitudes related to injections; implement field tests of relevant interventions; establish and support a national safe injection strategy; and advocate for a national injection safety plan. Initiatives’ project activities are supported by seven in-country staff members at our Georgetown project office with technical support from home-office staff.

In April 2007, GSIP was featured as a PEPFAR "Story of Hope."