In response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the relatively limited data available, the UN Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia developed a rapid survey, through the Making Every Woman and Girl Count global programme, to assess the gendered impacts of COVID-19 on women and men.
Viral hepatitis B and C affect 325 million people worldwide causing 1.4 million deaths a year. Hepatitis B and C are the second most fatal infectious diseases after tuberculosis, and 9 times more people are infected with hepatitis than HIV.
The International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), together with civil society organisations and researchers from across the Former Soviet Union (FSU), conducted an assessment of national government’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact on human rights in Ukraine.
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.
