Our mission is to participate in human rights monitoring and increasing the quality of life of vulnerable communities, mainly:

• individuals using drugs
• sex workers
• young people
• people living with HIV
• from threatened and marginalized communities

and to help them to regain their equal status in society.

Our vision is that people who use drugs, sex workers, young people, people living with HIV and other threatened communities will be equal members of the society and will actively take part in the life and policy of the state. Help and support systems will be created within the framework of the communities to prevent crisis situations and to fulfill their members´ needs.

Target groups

• people who inject drugs
• sex workers
• young people
• people living with HIV

Odyseus runs 4 programs and 1 initiative

• Protect Yourself (needle exchange program),
• Social Assistance
• Red Umbrella (advocacy program for sex workers)
• SEX/DRUGS (program for young people)
• initiative hiviads.sk (running a website www.hivaids.sk and organizing support for people living with HIV)

C.A. Odyseus provides a variety of services

• needle and syringe exchange
• outreach work
• social assistance
• counselling
• advocacy activities
• online intervention (www.hivaids.sk, www.drogy.org)
• distributing harm reduction magazine INTOXI
• distribution medical supplies, harm reduction materials and condoms
• distributing educational leaflets

Services which Odyseus provides are unique in Slovakia. Odyseus is one of the 4 harm reduction organizations in Slovakia which run a needle exchange program.

Correspondence address

C.A. Odyseus
Haanova 10
852 23 Bratislava
Slovakia

Phone: +421 2 524 94 344
E-mail: odyseus@ozodyseus.sk

Identification number: 31 788 734
Odyseus is registered at the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak republic under no. VVS / 1-900 / 90-13648.
Trade Register Number: 110-162064.