The charitable fund “Candle” and the Coordination Committee for the Global Fund Program in Russian Federation are pleased to announce a competition for a Fundraising Specialist (Fundraiser) vacancy in the Coordination Committee Secretariat.

The price of this test will be about 1,000 rubles. The test is expected to get registered before the end of the year.

The sex workers led organization Silver Rose from St Petersburg, Russia, has published a security guide for sex workers. The guide was developed by sex workers with the financial help of the Global Fund.

On the New Year Eve Irkutsk AIDS Center published a spoof video on the "Sex and the City" TV series, called "Bullshit and the Backwater Town", which focuses on the topics of love, fidelity, truth, lies and safe sex. The storyline explores typical situations when people ...

Since January 2018, the programs of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Russia are closing. The funding will be discontinued since the next July. Takie Dela media tried to understand what will be the impact of the GF withdrawal on foundations ...

Overall, 445 pregnant women with a positive HIV status were registered in the republic.

On October 31-November 1, a training seminar "Leadership capacity development of sex workers (SWs)" is held in St. Petersburg within the framework of the project "Strategic meeting of the sex workers community representatives".

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On October 21-22, a strategic meeting and a two-day training for representatives of the Russian IDU community was held under the initiative of a consortium of the non-governmental organizations in the framework of the regional program PARTNERSHIP. The main goal of the training was to increase ...

Join Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the Global Coalition of TB Activists (GCTA) for a webinar on how civil society and community groups can initiate a dialogue with their national governments in advance of the Ministerial Conference in Moscow. Wednesday, October 25 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. ET Panelists ...

Individuals and organizations interested in signing on to a civil society version of the Moscow Declaration that could serve as a blueprint for commitments and action toward ending the global impacts of tuberculosis over the next decade and a half have one more day to ...

Six case studies documented by the Eurasian Coalition on Male Health Global Fund policies on the composition of country coordinating mechanisms (CCMs) have resulted in increased participation of LGBT organizations on CCMs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA). It has also resulted in greater participation ...

Moscow Anna Alimova works on the front lines of Russia's growing HIV epidemic. On a Friday night, the mother of two with a shock of bright pink hair stands outside a 24-hour pharmacy in a leafy Moscow neighborhood. She cheerfully offers plastic bags full of clean ...

Neither the government nor CSOs have taken up the services previously supported by the Global Fund In January 2017, the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation rejected a request to allocate $1.2 billion over four years for the response to HIV, citing “a lack of ...

Central Asia and the Russian Federation face a major intra-regional migration flow, home, as it is, to one of the largest labor migration corridors in the world, with hundreds of thousands of migrant workers moving from Central Asian countries to the Russian Federation and to ...

The Russian Health Ministry has abandoned a proposal to allocate additional funding to the fight against the spread of HIV. According to the RBC news agency, the ministry submitted a four-year plan to the federal government this week that does not include a proposal to ...

Health Ministry says 824,000 of the estimated 850,000 HIV-positive people in Russia have already been added to the registry/ The Russian government has abandoned plans to fine HIV-infected patients who refuse to register on a Kremlin-administered list of sufferers. Patients would have been forced to add their name ...

Agonist therapy with methadone could use existing structure to reduce addiction, HIV Opioid agonist therapy using methadone is regarded as one of the most effective treatments for opioid use disorders as well as helping to reduce HIV risks. Such therapy, however, is not yet available in ...