UNODC seeks to provide funding support to Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) particularly Community Based Organisations (CBOs) working in the area of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support among people who use drugs and people in prison to ensure quality HIV services that are tailored to their needs.
In the framework of an initiative of International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and its partners from Central Asia a paper has been prepared to monitor and document the human rights impact of governments’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in this region.
There are currently about a million citizens of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan working in the Russian Federation. Key groups of the population are also migrating to different countries seeking a better life. Because of this, the AFEW partnership conducted a study called “Assessment of Labor Migration Among Drug Users in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan”, which ultimately led to the development and implementation of the “Labor Migration: Awareness and Access” project in 2018. This partnership was created in the framework of the “Bridging the Gaps” project and was financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.
On-line conference ‘Prisons in COVID context: how community health systems work in EECA region’ will take place on July 24th.
On the 16 July the Central Asia Program of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) will organize a webinar “The COVID-19 Pandemic and Central Asian Migrants in Russia”.
UNAIDS published a report on the global AIDS epidemic which shows that 2020 targets will not be met because of deeply unequal success; COVID-19 risks blowing HIV progress way off course.
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) released a paper “The Alarming of the Healthcare System in Tajikistan”.
ENPUD released the seventh edition of the ENPUD Information Digest on COVID-19.
ECDC published guidance on infection and control of COVID-19 in prisons.
