On October 5, the activists of country consortia of the regional program Partnership, implemented by East Europe and Central Asia Union of People Living with HIV (ECUO) with support from the Global Fund, took part in the online seminar "Best Practices as a tool for ...

For the six months of 2017, in all regions of Belarus, especially in Gomel region, the number of criminal prosecution increased drastically for cases of HIV-positive people by Article 157 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (infecting a person with human immunodeficiency virus).

On October 6-8, in Bucharest (Romania), will be held the 10th meeting of the Community Advisory Board in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECAB). The core discussions will be devoted to the issues of treatment of viral hepatitis and HIV as a co-infection.  David Ananiashvili, permanent participant of ECAB, Director of the Georgian GROUP PLUS and representative of the East ...

On November 15-16, 2017, the ECUO organizes a meeting of the Community Advisory Board in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA CAB) in the updated format. In early October, on the website eeca-cab.org the call for applications to participate in the meeting will be announced. The representatives of patient organizations from 14 countries of the EECA, regional agencies ...

In Kazakhstan, more frequent become the cases of ungrounded denial to assign the disability of HIV-positive children that leads to restrictions on equal access to basic standards of social services for all children affected by HIV/AIDS epidemic. Regarding the situation, the ECUO Parent Union officially addressed the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Baktyzhan Sagintayev, with a request to take this situation under his control. It can be solved based on the successful experience of South Kazakhstan area where ...

Andrey Yarovoi: expert of the regional expert group (REG) of the program "Partnership" implemented by the ECUO. Member of the ENPUD Coordination Council, a member of OST Association of Ukraine.   On September 18-19, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, was held the National Conference "New challenges: HIV and TB", ...

On September 25-26, the national HIV programs managers of eastern European, central Asian and non-European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries got together for a regional meeting held at the WHO European Office in Copenhagen. Vladimir Zhovtyak, ECUO President, as a representative of international PLWH community, participated ...

Participants of the regional meeting “The Coalition for Change”, that took place in Riga on September 22-24, signed a Memorandum of cooperation, understanding and establishing a regional organization to advocate for MSM+. The document was signed by representatives of five states: Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, ...

The World Heath Organization and UNAIDS have announced approval of a revolutionary pricing agreement that will facilitate access to the first affordable and all-purpose single-pill HIV regimen including Dolutegravir (DTG) for the public sector in low and middle-income countries. Its price will be around 75 ...

On September 22, a workshop for patient communities on accessibility of innovation in HIV treatment in Ukraine was held in Kyiv. During the workshop, influential international organizations – the EATG and the East Europe and Central Asia Union of People Living with HIV (ECUO) – ...

On September 25-26,the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization convenes in Copenhagen a meeting of leaders of national HIV programs from Eastern Europe, Central Asia and non-EU/EEA countries. The purpose of this meeting is to support participating countries in the preparation or updating ...

On September 25, the third expert meeting "HIV Outcomes: Beyond Viral Suppression" is held in Brussels, where political priorities on HIV are discussed: long-term health, concomitant diseases and the sustainability of the public health care service. Policymakers and stakeholders from HIV communities and health policy ...

The National Consortium of Armenian Communities, which includes three organizations: "Real World, Real People", "Pink Armenia" and "Awakening Potential", initiated the creation of the Platform for Communication and Cooperation of organizations and activists working in the field of the  response to HIV / AIDS and ...

In early September, Poland became the platform for the first presentation and discussion of the "Concept of the East Europe and Central Asia Union of People Living with HIV on access to treatment in the EECA region". The key aspect of the Concept is the ...

In Chisinau, at the annual coordination meeting of the Participants of the General Meeting of the ECUO, the priorities for advocacy activities for the coming year were identified. The ECUO participants and focal points from 15 countries of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia, as well ...

President of the ECUO Vladimir Zhovtyak talks, in his blog, about the main issues to be discussed at the working meeting of the ECUO communities, which will be held on the 6th of September in Poland. During the first working week of autumn, representatives of ECUO ...

In 2015, viral hepatitis caused the death of 1 million 340 thousand people around the world. Such data are published in the report of the World Health Organization, during the International Congress on diseases of the liver ILC 2017 held in Amsterdam. One of the causes of high mortality is the ...

Policy-makers and stakeholders from the HIV and wider health policy community (patients, clinicians, academics and industry) met in Brussels for the second meeting of the “HIV Outcomes: Beyond viral suppression” multi-stakeholder initiative. The meeting focused on the need to: • improve long-term health outcomes among people living with ...