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On August 12–16, the “School of MSM and TG Leaders” was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

One of the main goals of AFEW International and its partners is to improve the health of key populations in society in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. That’s why every story of success from this region is a great stimulus for us! We are happy to share with you a change story from Tajikisan.

We are happy to announce that AFEW International represented by executive director Anke Van Dam became a consultant of an international project “Optimizing HIV prevention portfolios targeting people who inject drugs using dynamic economic modeling” awarded with NIH grant.

A photo exhibition “On the Edge” was opened on the 9th of August in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Nearly one year after the first-ever United Nations High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis, the Stop TB Partnership, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the World Health Organization, call for immediate action to implement the commitments that were made by Head of States and Governments.

On the 29th of June, the National Platform of Key Populations (CKPP) (https://ckpp.org.ua/), released a video where told about its activities and encouraged community representatives to join it.

Saglyk.org is the only website in Turkmenistan that provides credible public health information in the Turkmen language. Aynabat Yaylymova, the founder and the editor of the website, told us about the objectives of this initiative.

Today, the community of people living with HIV (PLWH) in Kazakhstan is actively developing – the voice of community can now be heard at all levels, up to the Ministry of Health and the Parliament. An important role in achieving this progress belongs to the events for potential activists organized by the Kazakhstan Union of PLWH together with AFEW Kazakhstan. One of them is a series of workshops called “School for People Living with HIV”.