News of ECOM
February 1, 2018
Raminta Stuikyte to facilitate ECOM’s new regional mechanism – Regional Platform for Policy Reform (RPPR)
On February 1, 2018 ECOM has appointed Raminta Stuikyte as facilitator of its new regional multi-sector mechanism – Regional Platform for Policy Reform (RPPR). RPPR will be comprised of community...
January 30, 2018
EECA Regional Online Dialogue for the Development of a New Regional Program
The Regional Communities Networks Consortium uniting Eurasian Coalition on Male Health (ECOM), Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA), Eurasian Women’s Network on AIDS (EWNA), Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network (SWAN), Eurasian...
January 29, 2018
Georgia: Assault on a transgender woman in Tbilisi
On 28 January, a 23-year-old transgender woman Miranda Pagava, an activist from on of the local LGBT organizations, was attacked in the center of Tbilisi. According to Pagava, the incident...
January 25, 2018
The 3rd Ageing with HIV conference
The 3rd Ageing with HIV conference that was scheduled to be held on the 22-25 March 2018 has been postponed to 3-6 May 2018 (Kyiv, Ukraine). How to Apply: You...
January 23, 2018
Alexander Tsekhanovich joined the ECOM team
Dear colleagues! The ECOM Secretariat is pleased to inform you that today Alexandr Tsekhanovich joined our team as a Technical Support and Sub-recipients Coordinator. Alexandr is a specialist with many...
January 21, 2018
Paata Sabelashvili: "Because HIV/AIDS is so stigmatised in society and in the community itself, this problem is expressed only in statistics, not in human stories…"
Paata Sabelashvili When you grow up as a gay man in the 80 and 90s in Soviet (and then independent) Georgia, it is not exactly easy to come out and...
January 12, 2018
Making increased participation of EECA region in AIDS2018 a reality
AFEW International with the support of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs implements a range of activities to empower CBOs, NGOs, activists, policy makers, stakeholders, researchers and clinicians from Eastern...
January 12, 2018
UN urges comprehensive approach to sexuality education
Close to 10 years after its first edition, a fully updated International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education published today by UNESCO advocates quality comprehensive sexuality education to promote health and...
January 12, 2018
EECA Regional Communities Consortium is created
A Memorandum to create an EECA Regional Communities Consortium has been signed on December 20, 2017 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The goal of the Consortium is to unite the efforts of...
January 1, 2018
ECOM presents a MSMIT Training of Trainers Manual
ECOM is proud to announce a new resource for trainers of the MSM Implementation Toolkit (MSMIT). After a series of grassroots workshops aimed to introduce community organizers and health providers...
