KHUJAND, October 17, Asia-Plus — The third regional meeting of managers and coordinators of the “Social Accompaniment” project, sponsored by AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW), is going on in Khujand, the capital of the northern Sughd province.
The project has been implemented in all Central Asia’s states, expect Turkmenistan, since 2005 under financial support of a Dutch non-governmental humanitarian public health organization AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW) and the Task Program of Joint Financing of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.
The meeting participants are exchanging views and sharing experience in combating spread of AIDS/HIV in the region, assessing contribution of donors to the reduction of the impact of HIV/AIDS in the region.
The Social Accompaniment project includes two programs: Resource Centers and Social Bureau. The Recourse Centers program provides for holding training and seminars for social workers, consultants and specialists, as well as establishing cooperation among medical facilities, international organizations and local authorities. The Social Bureau program is aimed at providing medical legal and social assistance to HIV sufferers.
The meeting will end tomorrow.
AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW) is a Dutch non-governmental humanitarian public health organization whose mission is to make a major contribution to the reduction of the impact of HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) by: taking an innovative and pro-active approach to developing, implementing and promoting tools for effective HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support, designed for and appropriate to the specific conditions of EECA; targeting the younger generation of the region, in particular those engaging in risky behavior; cooperating closely with national governmental and non-governmental structures to boost local coping capacities and to advocate for appropriate action; and strengthening East-West engagement by exchanging knowledge and people via program activities and stimulating a committed response.
