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December 9, 2015

Nataliya Zholnerova: “People Do not Die from AIDS for Long Now”

According to statistics, about 25 thousand people were diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus in Kazakhstan. But on the eve of the World AIDS Day, let’s not talk about the numbers, because the exact number of people living with HIV cannot be stated by any medical facility. There is an endeavor to try to understand how they live with the diagnosis, which for most of us sounds like a sentence. And what kind of help they can expect.

December 5, 2015

SWAN Members Commemorate World AIDS Day

MACEDONIA

STAR-STAR organized:

Group Community workshop on HIV and STI with female sex workers;
Group Community workshop on HIV and STI with male and transgender sex workers;
Mobile HIV testing.

STAR-STAR also supported supported and participated in the auction’s event organized by ‘Stronger Together’ – community group of people living with HIV.

November 30, 2015

SWAN statement on World AIDS Day

Sex workers are among the groups of people that are most affected by HIV/AIDS due to:

barriers to access health services;
lack of negotiation power for safe sex practices, seizure and destruction of sex workers’ condoms, and using or threatening to use their condoms as “evidence of a crime” by police;
forced HIV/STI testing by police;
attitudes of stigma and discrimination, where those engaging in sex work are marginalized and often subjected to abuse and violence.

May 19, 2015

International AIDS Candlelight Memorial Day

In 2013 there were 35,5 million HIV positive people, and 1.5 million people died from AIDS-related causes, according to UNAIDS. The people living with HIV and AIDS often face lack of access to equal treatment, support and respect. A lot of them face stigma and criminalization, especially such vulnerable groups as sex workers. The latter face higher risk of HIV due to criminalization of their work, violence and discrimination by medical institutions and the police.

May 8, 2015

Eurasian Women’s AIDS Network (EWAN) was officially registered in Georgia

AIDS is the leading cause of death among women of reproductive age. Worldwide, there are more than 17 million women and girls living with HIV.

The problem of HIV is a big issue among women is in the post-Soviet countries. According to Svetlana Moroz, Chairman of the EWAN Board, “in many countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA), HIV has a female face”. At the same time, the majority of HIV prevention programs in these countries are not targeted at women.

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