Launch of Client Management System in Russia (Thursday 29 November 2007)
As World AIDS Day approaches, AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW) is announcing the launch of the client management system in the Russian Federation. The system is based on a unique methodology that...
AFEW-Moldova Holds Successful Event in Honour of World AIDS Day (Sunday 25 November 2007)
On Saturday, 24 November, AFEW held the first ever Dance4Life concert in Moldova, to honour the upcoming World AIDS Day on 1 December. The concert was a huge success, and attracted over 1,200 young...
AFEW Launches the ‘Dance4Life’ HIV Prevention Project in Moldova (Wednesday 14 November 2007)
On 14 November 2007, AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW) officially launched the international ‘Dance4Life’ HIV prevention among young people project in the Republic of Moldova.The ‘Dance4Life’ project...
AFEW Announces Contest for Best Printed Material (Friday 09 November 2007)
Entries in the contest, which is timed to coincide with World AIDS Day, will be accepted from 10 November to 10 December 2007.We invite entries from non-profit organisations and government...
AFEW Holds Training Seminar on ‘Setting Up and Supporting Client Management Services’ (Saturday 06 October 2007)
This training seminar, which took place 1–5 October at the Moskovskiy Training Centre, represents an important step in AFEW’s activities aimed at introducing client management services for vulnerable...
AFEW Kyiv Office Trainers Strengthen Social Work with Street Children (Wednesday 26 September 2007)
On 21–22 September a training was held in Kyiv as part of the project ‘Preventing HIV and STIs among children and young people living or working on the streets’. The training was held by AFEW’s Yuri...
Roundtable on Results of MSM Project Held in Kyiv (Tuesday 11 September 2007)
A round table was initiated to mark the closing of a two-year project implemented by AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW) together with the Gay Alliance.The project coverage included approximately 14,000...
AFEW has launched a new project on health promotion among inmates and staff of the Ukrainian State Penal Department (Tuesday 04 September 2007)
The three-year project ‘Institutionalisation of Health Promotion and HIV/AIDS Prevention in the Educational System of the Ukrainian State Penal Department (USPD)’ will be implemented with the...
‘Live Fashionably! Live Safe!’ Kazakhstan’s first Campaign for HIV/AIDS Prevention among Young People (Monday 16 July 2007)
The campaign is being run by AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW) and the NGO 'Equal to Equal'. It is based on young people's natural desire to be fashionable and to look attractive in any...
AFEW‘s Director of Programme Development Robin Montgomery is Leaving the Organisation (Tuesday 03 July 2007)
Robin has applied for and been accepted to the post-graduate Health Policy Management and Evaluation Programme at the University of Toronto in her home country, Canada. Her last working day at AFEW...
‘Coordinating Harm Reduction Activities’ work meeting was held on 30 May in Moscow (Tuesday 05 June 2007)
The meeting was organised by AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW) and the Russian Harm Reduction Network (RHRN) to facilitate discussion of activities implemented by organisations working in the area of...
AFEW and UN expand services for IDUs and prisoners (Friday 18 May 2007)
On 14 May 2007, AFEW signed a funding agreement with the United Nations focused on ‘Scaling up and improving access to HIV/AIDS prevention and care programs for injecting drug users and in prison...
International Scientific Conference ‘Social Work in Light of the New European Prison Rules’ was held with financial support from AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW) (Tuesday 08 May 2007)
This event was organised with the aim of studying the theoretical and practical issues of developing the system of social work and staff education in the Federal Penal System (FPS) as a step towards...
Changes in the AFEW Board (Wednesday 25 April 2007)
At the end of 2006 AFEW board members Nina Schwalbe and Wilfred Griekspoor completed their terms and were required to step down according to AFEW statutes. AFEW would like to thank Nina and Wilfred...
AFEW Launches First National Media Campaign for Solidarity with People Living with HIV in the Republic of Moldova (Tuesday 27 March 2007)
The following materials have been produced as part of the campaign: four TV clips, four radio clips, outdoor advertisement, an educational brochure, posters, calendars and other materials. The...
AFEW appeals to the Dutch Government in the week leading up to World TB-day, 24 March 2007 (Friday 23 March 2007)
A coalition of Dutch organisations, AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW) and AFEW's strategic partner KNCV Dutch Tuberculosis Foundation among them, asks the Dutch government to increase spending on HIV,...
AFEW experts hold HAART classes in ‘Patient School’ (Monday 15 January 2007)
‘Patient School’ started to operate on a regular basis on 10 January 2007 in the premises of the ‘Ash Tree’ (‘Yasen’) project. These classes are designed to provide people living with HIV with...