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European Gay Health Seminar June 28, 2007. Martine de Schutter. Coordinator western office AIDS Action Europe. AIDS Action Europe. Pan European partnership of NGOs working towards more effective response to HIV and AIDS epidemics. AIDS Action Europe. NGOs working together:
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European Gay Health Seminar June 28, 2007 Martine de Schutter. Coordinator western office AIDS Action Europe
AIDS Action Europe • Pan European partnership of NGOs working towards more effective response to HIV and AIDS epidemics
AIDS Action Europe NGOs working together: • European advocacy • Capacity-building • Evidence-based practice • Linking & learning • WHO definition of Europe • 200 members and partners • 45 countries
AIDS Action Europe Secretariat: • Western office in Amsterdam (coordinator, communication officer, secretary) • Eastern office in Vilnius (coordinator and country-coordinators Russia & Ukraine) • Planning: advocacy officer Brussels and Vilnius Steering Committee: 12 countries www.aidsactioneurope.org in English &Russian
Western office • Advocacy • European Partners in Action on AIDS
European advocacy • EU Presidencies & Declarations: Dublin/Vilnius 2004 & Bremen 2007 • EU Communication on HIV/AIDS
Civil Society Forum HIV/AIDS • Advisory body European Commission • Co-chairs AIDS Action Europe & EATG
Think Tank on HIV/AIDS • Governmental advisory body Commission • AIDS Action Europe & EATG 6 seats • Input in topics on European agenda
EPAA project 2006-2009 European Partners in Action on AIDS • Series best practice seminars • Information clearinghouse
Best practice seminars • Working with the media (Antwerp, September 2006) • Monitoring & evaluation (Amsterdam, November 2006) • Legislative and judicial systems (London, April 2007) • Gay men’s health (Paris, June 2007) • Voluntary testing & counselling (Bucharest, Spring 2008) • Fundraising (tentatively, late Spring 2008) • 1 topic to be decided in connection with AIDS Action Europe members meeting (tentatively October 2008)
Information Clearinghouse • Facilitates exchange of best practices and lessons learned on HIV and AIDS in Europe • Serves as a central point for collecting, classifying and distributing information or assistance • Makes information available for those who did not attend seminars • Launch of online discussion forum www.aidsactioneurope.org
Topics Advocacy Care and support Evaluation Gender Harm reduction Human rights Legislation Management Media Policy Positive prevention Prevention Reproductive health Research Sexual education Testing and counselling Treatment Target groups Ethnic minorities General public Health care professionals Heterosexuals Injecting Drug Users (IDUs) Men having sex with men Migrants NGOs People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) Prisoners Sex workers Women Youth Regions Central Asia Central Europe Eastern Europe Western Europe Global Information Clearinghouse
Eastern office • Prevention & Treatment alignment project • Russia & Ukraine
PTAP project • Community-based advocacy and networking to scale-up HIV prevention in an era of expanded treatment • 2005-2009 • World-wide 10 country project • Russia and Ukraine in Europe • Russia: Russian Harm Reduction Network • Ukraine: Coalition of HIV services organisations
PTAP project • Past events: training on advocacy, treatment access for IDUs, stigma and discrimination, vaccine clinical trials, cooperation between NGOs and PLWHA networks, involvement in legislative processes, prevention technologies • 2007: advocacy, HIV/AIDS at the workplace, stigma and discrimination, new prevention technologies.
Special thanks The work of AIDS Action Europe is facilitated through financial contributions by: • Gates Foundation • European Commission • GlaxoSmithKline’s Positive Action Programme • Bristol-Myers Squibb • Aids Fonds • Deutsche AIDS Stiftung • Members of the Steering Committee