Schedule of EHRA team during the 23d International AIDS Conference:
Monday, 6 July
Symposia session – Where did our voices go? HIV advocacy in a noisy landscape
Room: Symposia and bridging sessions On-Demand Channel
Session Description: Advocacy happens in response to a disparity and inequity. HIV advocacy has a history of powerful effectiveness because it was a grassroots-driven response to a crisis. We have lost that momentum because there have been fractures and the people most affected experience a continued history of disenfranchisement even before encountering the system of HIV care. How can we reclaim the momentum?
Symposia session
Advocacy and harm reduction in Eastern Europe Speaker Ganna Dovbakh, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association
Also:
Symposia session
The promises and threats of UHC to the HIV response Speaker Anton Basenko, Alliance for Public Health
Thursday, 9 July
Virtual Workshop – Activists’ motivation and resilience for strong community network: tools and experience from Eurasia
3 p.m. (GMT+3)
Speakers: Ganna Dovbakh, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA), Yana Panfilova, Eurasian Union of Adolescents and Youth “Teenergizer”; Elena German, Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity; Svitlana Moroz, Eurasian Women’s AIDS Network (EWNA)
Symposia session – The epidemic of loneliness: Addressing isolation as a key component in the HIV response
10:30 p.m. (GMT+3)
Room: Symposia and bridging sessions On-Demand Channel
Session Description: Isolation can be a direct result of internalized stigma and, in turn, it impacts health and wellness as well as different forms of social participation including using health services and participating in community activities. Three different experiences will illustrate how social empowerment is key to personal resilience. The impact of isolation in people’s lives will demonstrate the challenges of isolation as well as how experiences of building social capital helped people to thrive and improve their quality of life.
Symposia session
Introduction, Speaker: Ivan Varentsov, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association
Related videos to the session
- Video about our compaign of the EECA regional KAP networks “Chase the virus Not People“ from the Amsterdam Conference.
- Video of our partners from Hungary – Rightsreporter Foundation – on the results fo the implementation of the last Global Fund HIV program in Russia.
- Recent video from the same partners featuring the activists and civil society organisations who are being increasingly targeted by repressive governments in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
E-POSTERS
Piloting the Sustainability Bridge Funding Approach to sustain NGO-based harm reduction services within the transition context in Southeastern Europe – Ivan Varentsov, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association
Community led assessment of client satisfaction with OST services: Pilot study in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast region, Ukraine – Maria Plotko, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association
