On January 10, 2020, AFEW International, represented by Anke van Dam, Executive Director, and Daria Alexeeva, Program Director, met with Ambassador of Uzbekistan in Benelux countries Dilier Hakimov.
On the 5 – 7 July 2020 HIV2020 conference will be held in Mexico City. You can register and apply for a scholarship now!
In November 2019, a photo exhibition of the PhotoVoices project was opened in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
If we empower sex workers with HIV knowledge, skills and rights, each of them can become an “agent of change” for the general population, in particular for the men who use her services,” says Irina Maslova, head of the Silver Rose movement of sex workers and their allies in St. Petersburg.
Dear friends and colleagues,
At this time of the year, the team of AFEW International wants to thank you for your continued support and partnership!
Nowadays, globalization, together with advances in communications and transportation, has increased the number of people, who want to move to other places.
Our partner, AFEW Kazakhstan Public Fund, received a state award in the nomination “Protecting Citizens’ Health, Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle” in Kazakhstan.
“If you can help someone Here and Now, you should do it without postponing it or thinking what other people can do,” says Ekatherina Rusakova, Director of Sverdlovsk Regional Charitable Organization “Malaxit” supporting people in difficult life situations. “If every one of us helps at least one person, maybe it will drive changes in the society.”
What good collaboration between municipalities and NGOs means, why in the Netherlands service-delivery for sex workers, People Who Use Drugs and LGBTQI is funded by the municipality, and how this is organised? Answers on these questions are in videos made within the Fast-Track HIV/TB Cities Project.
Since 2016, AFEW-Ukraine is regularly involved in the organisation of study tours for representatives of public organizations and government agencies, and colleagues working in other regions of Ukraine within the framework of the “Bridging the Gaps: Health and Rights for Key Populations” programme,
