News of ECOM
July 27, 2022
COVID-19 and the War: ECOM Research on the impact of war on PrEP users in Ukraine
ECOM presented the results of the study titled “COVID-19, sexual behavior and intimate partner violence among PrEP users in Ukraine,” which was conducted jointly with the Alliance for Public Health...
July 26, 2022
ECOM Conducts the First Study in the EECA Region on the Level of Internalized Transphobia
Internalized transphobia still remains a “gray area” for research in the post-Soviet space. In 2021, ECOM conducted the first study in the EECA region on the level of internalized transphobia...
July 25, 2022
WHO declares monkeypox outbreak an international emergency
On July 21, a meeting of the International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee was held. As a result of this meeting, the WHO Director-General designated the monkeypox outbreak as a...
July 25, 2022
ECOM continues to inform LGBT communities about monkeypox and to fight stigma and discrimination
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an official statement that the monkeypox outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern. The announcement comes after cases have spread to...
July 20, 2022
ECOM Conducted a Training Session on Monitoring and Documenting Human Rights Violations
At the end of June, a training session was held on monitoring and documenting human rights violations of LGBT people. ECOM was able to train 18 activists from 5 countries...
July 13, 2022
The First PrEP Resource Center in Central Asia: Advantages and Principles of Work
In April this year, in Almaty was launched the Resource Center (RC) for pre-exposure prophylaxis of HIV (PrEP), which is a platform to exchange experience and transfer best practices between...
July 11, 2022
ECOM Updated Chatbot that Helps LGBT Ukrainians
At the very beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, ECOM created a chatbot to help LGBT Ukrainians and their loved ones, which can be found on Telegram under the...
June 30, 2022
ECOM Continues to Support Ukraine: Our Help 4 Months into the War
The war in Ukraine is still going on, so ECOM continues to provide support to ECOM members and partners from Ukraine, as well as to all members of the community...
June 28, 2022
“Be on Fire, but Don’t Burn out”: ECOM Launched an Emotional Support Course for Members and Partners
June 25 marks the launch of our online course “Prevention of Emotional and Professional Burnout” for ECOM members and partners as well as activists from the EECA region working with...
June 20, 2022
Monkeypox in EECA: What the LGBT Community Needs to Know
Despite the fact that cases of monkeypox (MPX) in the region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) are still quite rare — at the moment, only a few cases...
