Svetlana Izambaeva was one of the first women living with HIV in Russia who was brave enough to open her face. Now Svetlana supports other people living with HIV.
50-year-old Zebo from the southern Khatlon region of Tajikistan is a former labor migrant. She took a brave step and made a statement at the 22-nd International AIDS Conference-2018 in Amsterdam about her HIV-positive status – the fact she had been silent about a long ...
"The old hags occupied all the benches", Dasha points out disapprovingly. Dasha has no reason to be well-disposed to old women - both on funny pictures, and in real life they often spit out a capacious description: "Prostitute" when they see her. That’s what Dasha ...
At the XXII International Conference on HIV/AIDS in Amsterdam, we managed to talk with Natalia Sidorenko, a specialist having a long practical experience in the field of TB services, as well as an expert of the regional group of the PARTNERSHIP program implemented in Eastern ...
Yelena Strizhak, a HIV activist from Ukraine, the Chairperson of the Board of the Charitable Organization "Positive Women", conducted a training on women's leadership organized by the "Silver Rose" movement for women from different HIV-service organizations in St. Petersburg. She told about her life and ...
Of the existing diseases, HIV is a relatively young and not comprehensively studied one. Over the past three decades, thanks to the effective application of ARV therapy, the disease has left the category of deadly, and passed into the category of chronic, meaning one can ...
In 2018 it will be 30 years from the point when the first HIV-infected person was diagnosed in Estonia. During this short period, this small European country is on the list of leaders regarding HIV epidemic prevalence in the region. The indicators could be even ...
Igor Kilchevsky is an iconic figure in the PLWH community. His biography is a living illustration of HIV history and establishment of the civil society in Moldova. He went from being an activist who created a small non-governmental organization to being the leader of the ...