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,
Today, December 6, Bishkek joined Zero TB Cities international initiative aiming to reduce tuberculosis disease rate in cities, an important event happened during City Health Leadership Forum in Kiev.
On 5 December 2019, the EU Civil Society Forum on Drugs (CSFD), an expert group of the European Commission, organized a seminar for Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) entitled ‘The Future of European Drug Policy’.
On the 6 December 2019, the EECA City Health Leadership Forum will be organized in Kyiv, Ukraine showcasing the results of the Fast Track HIV/TB Cities Project (2017-2019).
At a recent conference in Saint Petersburg on comprehensive rehabilitation and reintegration of people who use drugs, PITCH partner Humanitarian Action together with the Government of Saint Petersburg brought together representatives from both non-governmental and governmental organisations, medical institutions, and academia.
On the World AIDs day AFEW International talked to representatives of key population about their experiences and goals.
AFEW and Dance4Life have recently launched the joint initiative ‘Journey4Life Plus’, a project in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to empower young people and promote access to health services regarding sexual and reproductive health, HIV and drug use.
