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Empowering Key Populations: Breaking Barriers and Providing Support

Join Cæcilie Bom Kahama, Head of International Programmes at AIDS-Fondet/The Danish AIDS Foundation, in unlocking opportunities for key populations globally. Learn about advocacy efforts, partnerships, and projects addressing the needs of MSM, injecting drug users, and sex workers. Explore the challenges of policies, stigma, and funding, and discover effective strategies such as community-based approaches, collecting evidence, and advocating for rights. Explore projects in Malawi, Uganda, Nepal, and Kenya that emphasize compassion and support for key populations. Stand with us in supporting those who need it the most!

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Empowering Key Populations: Breaking Barriers and Providing Support

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  1. Unlocking the doors to key populations • By Cæcilie Bom Kahama, • Head of International Programmes

  2. AIDS-Fondet/The Danish AIDS-FoundationInternational engagement:- Since 2003 - Advocacy + projects/partnerships- Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe- Target groups: key populations

  3. Key populations Who? Why? How?

  4. Who? Definition(s) of keypopulations-MSM (men who have sex with men)- injecting drug users-sex workers(+ e.g. transgender persons, prisoners, uniformedpersonnel, people with disabilities, migrants, etc. etc.)

  5. Why? • Injecting drug users: 22 x • MSM: 13 X • Sex workers: 13 x

  6. Barriers • Policies • Stigma & discrimination • Criminalization • Funding

  7. How? • -Involvement in programs • -Community-basedapproaches • -Collectevidence • -Acknowledge the structural drivers • -Advocacy for the rights of key populations • -Stand-alone services or integrated services?

  8. AIDS-Fondet’sprojects: MSM (LGBT) projects in Malawi, Uganda and Nepal Sex workerproject in Kenya

  9. Compassion and support matters! • Thankyou

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