Seeking justice for people who inject drugs in Moscow
Russia is home to 69% of all people living with HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and its HIV epidemic is concentrated among people who inject drugs. In Moscow alone there were more than 30,000...
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EECAAC 2016: position of UNAIDS
In October 2015 18 national, regional and international NGOs working in the field of combating the HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) and other countries sent an open letter...
View ArticleTB, Stigma, and Drug Control: A case from Russia
Text: Mikhail Golichenko, Senior Policy Analyst, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Source: http://www.aidslaw.ca/site/tuberculosis-stigma-and-drug-control-a-case-from-russia/ In December 2015, I attended...
View ArticleMoscow City Court is on NGO side
Translation from Russian: Daria Mogucheva According to the Club of NGO Lawyers which provides comprehensive legal support to Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice (ARF) the Moscow City...
View ArticleCourt sides with the HIV-positive citizen of Tajikistan against Rospotrebnadzor
Translation from Russian: Daria Mogucheva We have already written about Fidravs’s case before – Firdavs is an HIV-positive citizen of Tajikistan who had been permanently residing in Russia until 2013,...
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“Foreign Agent” strikes back
lll The Russian government began its attack on non-profit organizations working in the field of HIV prevention in February, 2016. In just 6 months, the Ministry of Justice managed to include to the...
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Graffiti-lesson as a part of the “Support, Don’t Punish” action
Text: Max Malishev On the eve of the worldwide action “Support don’t punish” we decided that besides all the pickets and actions, we should to do something special for the representatives of drug...
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A number of pickets were held in front of the Ministry of Health of Russian...
On June 26 the participants and staff of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation once again joined the international action “Support. Don’t Punish”. On that date the International Day Against Drug Abuse and...
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Andrey Rylkov Foundation protest the government inaction on overdose deaths
On August 31, the International Overdose Awareness Day, activists of Andrey Rylkov Foundation and Forum of people who use drugs in Russia picketed the Ministry of Health and the Moscow Endocrine...
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Fuck EECAAC: Picket the AIDS conference organized by the Russian government
«… You are ready to go and walk around there in a hall, eat lunches, drink Coca-Cola or whatever else happens there… knowing that this money, to put it simply, could have been spent on HIV...
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