AFEW International is pleased to welcome Michel Kazatchkine as the new Chair of its Board. Prof. Kazatchkine brings a lot of experience to AFEW International having dedicated over 30 years fighting AIDS and promoting global health as a physician, researcher, advocate, policymaker, and diplomat.
The Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (GDF) announced agreements signed with 28 medicines manufacturers for 83 products that will substantially reduce the prices of medicines used in the treatment of tuberculosis (TB). As an outcome of GDF ’s recent competitive tender, savings of approximately USD 31 million are expected in the April 2018 to March 2019 period.
Report on the needs and gaps in treatment and rehabilitation for people who use drugs in selected countries of EECA
After three years as Chair of AFEW International’s Board, Professor Jeffrey Lazarus has stepped down on 1 June 2018. Many positive dynamic changes happened during his tenure. AFEW gained financial stability, renewed its board with community members, increased gender equity and cemented its position as a leading NGO in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Polygamy is one of the main factors contributing to the rapid spread of HIV in Tajikistan.
Kyrgyzstan is getting prepared to receive a certificate to confirm elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. In the last five years, over 95% of pregnant women were covered with prevention projects, while the new cases of vertical HIV transmission are now at the level of 2%.
The second edition of PLOV ARTxFOODxCINEMA is coming to Amsterdam on 19 of June. Culinary experiences and cinematographic impressions of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia will come together during the event organised by the AFEW Culture Initiative in collaboration with the partners IDFA and Studio/K.
Findings from a needs assessment survey of labour migrants among people who use drugs in the pilot regions of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Prepared within the framework of the project ‘Bridging the Gaps: Health and rights for key populations 2.0’.
4GB is an annual electronic music festival which has been held in Georgia since 2011. The festival is dedicated to the memory of DJ Giorgi Bakanidze – one of the Georgian club music pioneers. This year, 4GB was held in an abandoned Cosmic Constructions Centre near the Saguramo village. Apart from the high-quality lineup, sound systems and headliners performing on stage, 4GB festival had another prominent feature – for the first time in the history of Georgian music festivals, a team of volunteers delivered harm reduction services 24 hours a day. Mandala – Harm Reduction youth project team members did their best to make sure that more than one hundred participants of the festival stay healthy. Thanks to this project, drug and alcohol intoxication, overdoses and other risky situations were brought to naught.
188 NGOs sent an open letter to the two major UN drug control bodies—the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)—calling on them to take urgent action to prevent further deaths and human rights violations in the name of drug control in Bangladesh, but also in other countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia.
