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Annual Report 2001/2002

External presentation of AFEW

Launching AFEW

A prelude to the launch of AFEW was given in June 2001, with a photograph exhibition in the Andrei Sacharov Museum in Moscow. This exhibition marked the five-year anniversary of MSF-H's work in the field of HIV/AIDS in the RF, and the hand over of its activities to AFEW. The launch was opened by His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange of The Netherlands.

The official launch of the organisation took place on 1 December - World AIDS Day - 2001. For this occasion, AFEW organised press conferences in Moscow, Kyiv and Almaty, and photo exhibitions together with MSF-H in Ukraine and The Netherlands. AFEW's website has been up and running since the organisation was officially launched.

National and international conferences

AFEW staff participated in a wide range of international and regional conferences during 2002.

Overview of AFEW Conference Participation

November 2001

• Annual HIV/AIDS/STI Conference, Amsterdam, Holland (Murdo Bijl, Ilona van de Braak, Lex Winkler)

April 2002

• Eurasia Economic Forum 2002, Almaty, Kazakhstan (Jan van Esch, Nina Schwalbe)
• Strategies for STI and HIV Prevention and Reproductive Health Improvement, Moscow, RF (Evgenii Bobkov, Donald Postnov)
• Collaboration Between Governmental and Non-governmental Sectors in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control, Moscow, RF (Rian van de Braak,
  Natalia Khodakevich, Isabelle Perivier)
• Prevention of Dependencies on Psychoactive Substances and Socio-Psychological Rehabilitation of Drug Users, Samara, RF (Irina Kurtikova)
• UNAIDS Task Force on Substitution Treatment, Vienna, Austria (Yuri Sarankov)

May 2002

• TB and HIV/AIDS in the Penal System, Moscow, RF (Vadim Demchenko, Alexei Frolov, Natalia Khodakevich, Sasha Volgin, Yulia Vtorushina)

July 2002

• Effective Forms of HIV/AIDS Prevention among Children and Youth, Conference organised by The British Council, Kyiv, Ukraine (Anna Shapoval)
• XIV International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, Spain (Prem Abramova, Murdo Bijl, Ilona van de Braak, Roman Dudnik, Jan van Esch, Alex Frolov, Tatiana Grechukhina, Arkady Grigoriev, Marina Nikitina, Anya Sarang, Shona Shonning)
• CIS Conference on AIDS and the Global Fund, Moscow, RF (Rian van de Braak, Wim Landman)

August - September 2002

• National Conference for People Living with HIV/AIDS, Bielefeld, Germany (Roman Dudnik)

September 2002

• WHO/RUS WHO Evaluation Meeting, Moscow, RF (Murdo Bijl)
• IV European HIV/AIDS Conference, 'European Approach to HIV/AIDS and Related Issues: Research, Policy, Prevention and Care', Vilnius, Lithuania (Irina Berezhnova, Asya Bidordinova, Murdo Bijl, Vadim Demchenko, Tatiana Grechukhina, Nelly Kamaletdinova, Natalia Khodakevich, Lyudmila Korshunova)

October 2002

• Second Russian AIDS Conference in Suzdal, RF (Natalia Khodakevich)
• Seventh Annual Meeting of the Grantmakers Eastern Group, Moscow, RF (Rian van de Braak, Nina Schwalbe)
• The Social and Economic Aspects of the Spread of HIV Infection in the Russian Federation, organised by the Moscow Health Committee, Moscow, RF (Roman Dudnik, Tatiana Grechukhina)
• 6th European Conference of Drug and HIV/AIDS Services in Prisons, Vienna, Austria (Vadim Demchenko, Natalia Khodakevich, Yulia Vtorushina)
• First National Conference of NGOs in Russia, Moscow, RF (Roman Dudnik, Alexei Frolov)
• HIV Conference, Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Murdo Bijl)
• Social Work Academy Conference on the Integration of Social Services, NGOs, Social Workers, Schools and Students into the Treatment of Social Problems, Omsk, RF (Vadim Demchenko)

November 2002

• The 4th National Conference of People Living with HIV/AIDS and AIDS Service Organisations of Ukraine, 'We Act Jointly!', Kyiv, Ukraine (Yuri Sarankov, Anna Shapoval)
• Conference of Harm Reduction Projects Operating in Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine (Isabelle Perivier, Anya Sarang, Yuri Sarankov)

December 2002

• Real Issues of Children's Infection Pathology, Moscow, RF (Donald Postnov)
• Scientific Conference 'The Problem of Infection in Clinical Medicine', St. Petersburg, RF (Oksana Chernenko)
• Workshop on Co-operation Between German AIDS Projects and Russian and Ukrainian Projects, Hamburg, Germany (Roman Dudnik)
• 'Women: The Right to Live', Voronezh, RF (Irina Kurtikova)
• Russian Ministry of Justice Conference for Heads of Medical Departments, Moscow, RF (Murdo Bijl, Natalia Khodakevich)

World AIDS Day 2002

World AIDS Day is a time to celebrate the gains made in treating and preventing HIV/AIDS, as well as protecting the human rights of those living with the virus. It is also a moment to commemorate the lives lost and to learn from our past failings. For AFEW, it is a time for actively raising awareness among the general public via press conferences and youth concerts, and through interviews with the national and international media.

Photographers' file

AFEW started to build a photographic archive which includes photographs from Ilse Frech (The Netherlands), David Gillanders (the United Kingdom), Thomas Peter (the United Kingdom/Germany) and John Ranard (USA). These photographers have donated their photographs to AFEW for use in the development of training and public relations materials.