The Eurasian Women's Network on AIDS is launching the "HIV Is Not a Crime" awareness campaign, which aims to draw attention to the situation with the criminalization of HIV transmission in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region.

This new document – the guide to develop a national TB PPM action plan – is a planning document designed to facilitate the integration of strong PPM components into national TB strategic plans that are supposed to be the basis for Global Fund proposals and ...

Last weekend (more precisely – on February 16th) during the meeting of representatives of several HIV/AIDS NGOs from five countries of Baltic sea region, a new non-governmental organization - “Baltic Coalition for PLWHIV” (abbreviated as “NGO BaCo”) was established. This important initiative was brought forward ...

Welcome to the largest ever survey of Community Health Workers which is taking place all over Europe. Please take part if you… • Are aged 18 or over AND; • Work with gay, bisexual and other Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) now or in the last 12 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new report released today by the Global Forum on MSM and HIV (MSMGF) and OutRight Action International in collaboration with The Global Platform to Fast Track the Human Rights and HIV Responses with Gay and Bisexual Men argues for a global health and development approach that is ...

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 ...

The purpose of this information note is to support civil society and community groups to design and include community systems strengthening interventions and community-based monitoring activities in funding requests during the 2017-2019 Global Fund funding cycle. This information will be of interest to community groups, ...

The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) released a short film, in which MPP’s stakeholders from industry, government, civil society and patient groups discuss the foundation’s innovative business model, achievements and future plans to increase access to HIV, hepatitis C and TB treatment within the context of ...

An Activist's Protocol Review Toolkit is designed to facilitate community participation in the development and review of clinical trials protocols. The three tools contained in the toolkit will help Community Advisory Boards (CABs) think through different aspects of trial design and implementation, organize feedback for the research ...

The Global Fund has issued a new request for 2 proposals to select civil society service providers to support the realisation of 2 components of the Community Rights and Gender Strategic Initiative, during 2017-2019: Civil society and community organizations to provide peer-to-peer short-term technical assistance for civil ...

AVAC will host a webinar on the newly released WHO guidance on hormonal contraceptive eligibility for women at high risk of HIV on 26 April 2017. [gview file="http://ecuo.org/mvdev/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/04/hc_HIV_guidance_March2017.pdf"] For more information about the webinar and how to register, click here. Sources