This year, on June 26, the Global Day of Action of Support Don’t Punish Campaign marks its 10 year anniversary. The Campaign marks 10 years of resource mobilisation on the way of tackling the inhuman“war on drugs” and 10 years of progress towards human rights, health, science, and harm reduction based drug policies.
As AIDS Action Europe, we join the “Support Don’t Punish” Campaign and recognize…
We are happy to finally present to you the website of the European HIV Legal Forum (EHLF), the project of AIDS Action Europe!
EHLF is focused on benchmarking the legal situation in countries of the WHO European Region with regard to various topics concerning people living with HIV and other key populations. The pilot project was released in 2012, and to this day EHLF covers the following…
AIDS Action Europe is looking for a Programme Assistant to join our team earliest from 1 August. The position opens an opportunity to work in the biggest HIV/Aids related network which brings together experience of 400 civil society actors from Europe and Central Asia.
Your tasks include
Supporting of the overall AIDS Action Europe Programme implementation, including administrative support…
AIDS Action Europe is looking for a Project Manager to join our team earliest from 1 July. The position is full time and opens an opportunity to work in the biggest HIV/Aids related network which brings together experience of 400 civil society actors from Europe and Central Asia.
Areas of responsibility
application, implementation and reporting of projects of the network at European level;…
It has been more than a month since the Russian Federation’s ongoing invasion against Ukraine. AIDS Action Europe expresses its full support and solidarity with our friends and colleagues, their families and loved ones, our member and partner organizations from Ukraine, as well as the people of Ukraine in general. We also wish to express our admiration and support to the voices coming from…
Yaroslav Bliakharskyi (Ярослав Бляхарский) about his time on the Steering Committee of AIDS Action Europe (AAE).
Yaroslav, our Steering Committee (SC) member, who represents All-Ukrainian network of people living with HIV/AIDS – 100% LIFE, is leaving our SC next year. In our interview with Yaroslav, he talks about his experience being an AAE Steering Committee member. Furthermore, he stresses…
Michael Krone (AAE) moderated the conference "HIV in Eastern Europe - the unnoticed epidemic?!" which took place in Berlin on October 17, 2017, organized by Aktionsbündnis gegen AIDS (Action Alliance against AIDS), Bread for the World (Brot für die Welt) and Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe.
Representatives of the German and Belarus Ministries of Health and International Affairs, civil society organisations…
This interview was produced in the framework of the first ever Europe-wide online survey aimed at community health workers who provide sexual health support including counselling, testing, and psychosocial care for gay, bisexual and other MSM. European Community Health Workers Online Survey (ECHOES) is available online NOW in 16 languages and will remain open until 31st December 2017. To take…
During the Steering Committee Meeting in Athens, on April 24-25 2017, AIDS Action Europe met with its Greek member organisations. The meeting was organised by our Steering Committee member, Marianela Kloka from PRAKSIS, Greece. AAE used the opportunity to learn more about the situation on the ground, the challenges faced by the organisations and explored the needs for joint advocacy action.
The…
On April 20-21 the AIDS Action Europe (AAE) Steering Committee (SC) members had their first meeting of the year to discuss the new Strategic Framework and its actions, the Work Plan 2015, the review of AAE’s Communication Strategy and the Civil Society Forum Agenda for July 2015.
In the afternoon of the second day, AAE met Latvian civil society representatives and other stakeholders at the…
“Did you know?”- It’s a question that’s meant to arouse curiosity, for a lot of the difficulties of dealing with HIV are down to ignorance and outdated ideas.
The “Did you know?” campaign is Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe’s way of celebrating its 30th year, and presenting its central concerns and solutions. Our provocative claims, like “AIDS isn’t what it used to be”, “Heroin can save lives”, or “There’s no…
From 1 to 15 December, AIDS Foundation East-West, host organisation of AIDS Action Europe, organises individual online consultations on fundraising and resource mobilisations as part of the ROST project. Consultations are provided to members of AIDS Action Europe.
Application deadline – 30 November 2011.
Individual consultations will be held on Skype in Russian, based on application requests.…
AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW) and AIDS Action Europe announce DEADLINE EXTENSION for a course of webinars on ‘Fundraising and Resource Mobilisation’ to be held as part of
the ROST project for NGOs working in the field of HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
The course consists of six thematic webinars (for detail please see full text of announcement in Russian), and registration is open…
National AIDS Trust investigated the suitability of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services for people living with HIV and surveyed how people living with HIV had used the NHS talking therapy services in England.
On February 24, the Russian Federation started an unprovoked war against Ukraine. Since then, the whole world has borne witness to the humanitarian catastrophe that has followed this invasion. Russian aggression has led to thousands of civilian casualties, while an estimated 18 million people are affected by the conflict, and the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance has increased…
AIDS Action Europe together with other NGOs working with and representing the interests of communities of people living with and affected by HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis and drug dependence in Central and Eastern European countries, wrote a letter to EU governments and EU institutions. In this letter, we stress the urgency of ensuring continuity of essential life-saving treatments for…
AIDS Action Europe provides on this page information about various initiatives aimed to support Ukrainian refugees and people in Ukraine in the field of antiretroviral therapy, treatment for tuberculosis and viral hepatitis, hormonal therapy, opioid substitution therapy as well as resources for key populations.
Service #HelpNow.
Non-governmental Ukrainian, regional and international…
AIDS Action Europe (AAE) together with the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG) reached out to the government of North Macedonia to ask it to reverse the decision to cut the HIV budget allocation. The initiative is in support of the HIV Platform consisting of 14 civil society and community-based organisations working in the field of HIV prevention and support among key affected populations…
An illustration contest was organised to enrich training materials on substitution treatment in penitentiary units in Poland by the National AIDS Center and Służewiec Penitentiary Unit, in collaboration with the Joint Action HA-REACT project .
The contest was held in the Sluzewiec Penitentiary Unit, Poland and was closed on the 19th of October 2017. The winners of the competition were chosen by a…
Experts call for empowerment of affected groups and cooperation between governments and non-governmental organisations, lighthouse projects should get support.
The conference, which took place online on Dember 14, 2020, brought together civil society representatives from Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) together. They draw out the need for a fundamental change of course in the HIV policies…
On this Human Rights Day we are proud to present you a report and policy paper on HIV-criminalization.
“HIV criminalization” refers to the use of criminal law to penalize alleged, perceived or potential HIV exposure; alleged nondisclosure of a known HIV-positive status prior to sexual contact (including acts that do not risk HIV transmission); or non-intentional HIV transmission.
The report was…
On this World AIDS Day – we would like to launch our report on “Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Report” This report shows findings of the survey that took place in June 2020. AAE conducted a survey among our network members and partners to learn how the COVID-19 Pandemic has impacted the services and finances of our member and partner organisations.
This survey shows that services with face-to-…
The AIDS Action Europe Member and Partner Meeting 2020 took place online on November 10th. This year the meeting was to have our members and partners come together face-to-face to discuss AAE’s future strategy for 2022-2025. And even though it turned to be impossible to meet face-to-face this time, we decided to make the most out of this year and decided to shift the actual meeting online, which…
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We currently have 3 vacancies in our Steering Committee for a 3-year term of 2021 – 2023, starting on 1. Jan 2021, …
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has had profound effects across health systems worldwide, and many HIV, viral hepatitis and/or sexually transmitted infection (STI) services have been interrupted. EuroTEST, including regional European and international organisations representing community, health care and public health institutions developed an assessment to understand how…
On November 10, 2020, we would like to invite all our members and partners to participate in our AAE Member and Partner Meeting online, from 10 to 14:30 (CET, Berlin time). The meeting will be conducted in two languages: English and Russian.
Use this opportunity and join our meeting to discuss and learn from member and partner presentations on the guidance for our future work, to participate,…
The violation of human rights of LGBTIQ people in Poland has reached a new level when several protestors were detained two weeks ago in a demonstration in Warsaw.
On August 7, 2020, demonstrators tried to block the arrest of Margot Szutowicz, in front of the office of the Polish LGBTIQ advocacy organisation, Campaign Against Homophobia (Kampania Przeciw Homofobii). During the arrest of Margot on…
”COVID-19 might blow off track the AIDS response and reaching the UNAIDS treatment targets and the 2030 target of ending AIDS as a public health threat might be at risk.” – is the new slogan we have been hearing from different stakeholders since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. While the concerns are valid, COVID-19 policies and measures have raised additional obstacles…
The Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic outbreak affects all our lives on a day-to-day basis. These are also times, where our achievements in the field of HIV, viral hepatitis and TB and human rights based public health responses combating inequalities in health and addressing stigma and discriminationare are at stake.
Against this background we are highly concerned by the wave of public…
A recently published video incites hatred towards same-sex families in Russia, stirring up fears about the adoption of children by gay couples. The referendum to change the constitution was already announced in January 2020, the vote is taking place now, started yesterday, June 25, until July 1, 2020.
The video shows the year 2035 where an orphan meets his adoptive parents while a caregiver is…