At the time of my first labor, the nurse got spots of my blood. I remember her shouting “You are going to infect us all!”. I remember side glances and outright insults, phrases like “why did you give birth to him, he’s got the status?!”, their wish to get rid of me and my baby as soon as possible.
According to official data, the Sverdlovsk Region is among the leaders in the number of HIV-positive people in
On November 18, the final virtual meeting of the Emergency Support Fund for Key Populations in the EECA region (ESF) Advisory Board was held. During the meeting, the ESF team presented the main outcomes of the fund’s work, discussed its impact on civil society organizations representing key populations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and shared a strategy for the future.
During COVID-19 time, many people living in remote villages did not have the financial ability to get to a hospital or even receive therapy via the post office. That is why the organization “Alternative” from Odessa (Ukraine) applied to AFEW International for a grant for their project “Prevention of ART Interruption in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic” within the framework of COVID-19 Solidarity Program for the Eastern Partnership countries.
NHC and FGIP seek to provide grants to CSOs to monitor the effect of COVID-19 prevention and treatment measures on the conditions of people confined to penitentiary institutions, detention and/or pre-detention centres in the Republic of Armenia.
On the World AIDS Day (1 December 2021), join the high-level virtual conference ‘HIV 40 years on: Time to focus now on Health-Related Quality of Life!’ (10:00 – 12:00 CET) organised by HIV Outcomes.
The Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC) has launched a regional “COVID-19 Solidarity Programme 2020-2022” in Ukraine with the financial support of the European Union and in partnership with People in Need and AFEW International.
Within the project “Flexible Fund: Young, Wild and …free?, AFEW-Ukraine has created a set of interesting and informative pictures about HIV prevention and treatment, contraception and safe relationships, as well as prevention from using drugs.
The Rights Reporter Foundation (Drugreporter) organises two free trainings on media engagement and video advocacy.
The “Young, Wild… and Free?” project allowed to support the sustainability of results achieved by capacity building and engagement of young people in the promotion of SRHR and human rights in social media in Ukraine.
