“Bridging the Gaps: health and rights for the key populations”
Donor: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands/AIDS Foundation East West (AFEW)
Implementation period: 01/01/2016 – 30/11/2020
Project long-term goals:
- A strengthened civil society that holds governments to account;
- Increased fulfilment of the human rights of key populations;
- Improved SRHR and fewer HIV transmissions.
Project activities:
- Psychosocial rehabilitation of people with drug and alcohol addiction in a resindential rehabilitation center;
- Consultation of a medical specialist (neurologist, psychiatrist, addictologist, specialist of infectious diseases);
- Gender-specific services (consultation of mammologist, gynaecologist, in case of necessity referral or social accompanying to a screening center);
- Provision of free condoms and informational educational materials;
- Voluntary counseling and testing on HIV;
- Testing on hepatitis B and C;
- Group educational meetings (HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, STIs, stress, drug related harm);
- Group and individual meetings with codependent persons (family members of people who use drugs);
- In case of necessity referrals to appropriate medical, legal or other services;
- Social accompanying (accompanying client to necessary services).