Filed under: Gender equality Governance Health HIV Human rights Social inclusion
Today, on the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, I would like to introduce you to Kirill Sabir, head of the FtM Phoenix Group and supporter and former board member of the Eurasian Coalition on Male Health (Follow them on Twitter: @ECOM_MSM) I had the privilege to talk to Kirill, an activist and advocate for… Read more »
Filed under: Gender equality Health HIV Human rights Poverty Social inclusion
Is violence against women becoming the norm in Tajikistan? According to the Millennium Development Goals Women and Men in the Republic of Tajikistan (pdf) report, approximately half of all women in Tajikistan believe that violence by a husband against his wife is acceptable. The rates are even higher among rural residents. This is not acceptable…. Read more »
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John Macauley, Boyan Konstantinov, Alisher Juraev, Christoph Hamelmann How can we sustain and scale up efforts in preventing new HIV infections and saving lives in times of external funding constraints? The latest data from UNAIDS suggest that Eastern Europe and Central Asia is a region in the world where HIV prevalence is still rising. Currently,… Read more »
Filed under: Gender equality HIV Human rights Social inclusion
Евгения Марон, Благотворительный Женский Фонд «Астра», Россия Read this post in English Недавно я встретилась с коллегами, работающими с вопросами ВИЧ, из Российской Федерации, Молдовы, Казахстана, Таджикистана и Украины. Встреча объединила нас, представителей СПИД-сервисных организаций, негосударственных женских организаций и организаций, работающих с проблемой насилия, с людьми, принимающими решения, врачами, исследователями и медиа-специалистами. Темой обсуждения были… Read more »
Filed under: Development 2.0 Gender equality HIV Human rights Social inclusion
Evgenia Maron, Charitable Women’s Foundation Astra, Russia Русская версия I recently met with colleagues working on HIV from the Russian Federation, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Ukraine. We came from AIDS service organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working on women’s issues and prevention of violence, together with decision-makers, physicians, researchers and media professionals. The focus of our… Read more »
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Kamola Rasulova, UNDP in Uzbekistan Zebiniso Muhsinova is only 21. Nevertheless, she conducts her HIV awareness mini-sessions among schoolchildren with the confidence and flair of a prominent trainer. “Active participation of young people, their eagerness to learn and protect themselves from HIV, sexually transmitted diseases and drug abuse are amazing. Practice shows that our students… Read more »
Filed under: Health HIV Human rights Migration and remittances Social inclusion
Dudley Tarlton UNAIDS released their annual report this week on the state of the global AIDS epidemic, and the media headlines were universally optimistic. ‘Ending AIDS’ is possible in our lifetime. Possible, yes. But we are not on pace for it quite yet. Indeed the achievements reported are real, and they’re saving millions of lives… Read more »
Filed under: Central Asia Health HIV
Kamola Rasulova, UNDP in Uzbekistan We almost never think about blood, and rarely think about donating it. I realized the importance of donating blood only recently, after our project rolled out a donor blood safety component. Many times blood is needed for victims of catastrophes, car accidents, or during childbirth, and sometimes the availability of blood… Read more »
Filed under: Central Asia Health HIV
Christoph Hamelmann, Tedla Mezemir and John Macauley We recently met with partners from Central Asia at the Technical Consultation on experiences and challenges in prevention of HIV in injecting drug users in the Central Asian Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) European region. The meeting was organized under the lead of WHO Europe in… Read more »
Filed under: Health HIV Social inclusion
Kamola Rasulova, UNDP in Uzbekistan I was recently sifting through last year’s pictures and reports of our UNDP-Global Fund HIV project and I was amazed to see the progress we made and the people we were able to help in a short period of time. And the numbers tell the same story: Over 24,000 people of the most-at-risk… Read more »
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