ITSESI stand for:
I - Induvidually
T - Tailored
S - Support &
E - Educational
S -Supervised
I - Injection
"This manual has been developed for working
with groups of between 6 and 18 participants. It
is designed to be used in building skills of teams
of peers, volunteers and professionals already
experienced and working in the frame of harm
reduction programmes and who wish to address the
specific needs of counselling to improve injection
techniques and other health outcomes such as
reducing risk of infections.
As such, the manual offers an ‘add-on’ to initial and
other training, building on existing foundations,
interventions and services. It is not designed to
be a ‘stand alone’ manual. The intervention should
be nested in a wider and preferably stable harm
reduction programme.
Thus, the manual should be used by trainers who
are accustomed to training on Harm Reduction and
who are at ease both observing people inject drugs
(video) and guiding their participants to do so too.
Finally, the intervention the manual trains for
has its roots in person-centred approaches
and empowerment models of health promotion.
Organisations and participants should be aware of
this when deciding to implement the training and
providing the intervention it contains." (p. 8)
