ON HIV/AIDS AND STI’s PREVENTION AMONG COMMERCIAL SEX WORKERS

Project duration: 2005

This project is aimed:
Publication and distribution of informational materials on  HIV/AIDS and STI’s prevention among CSW.

Target groups: commercial sex workers

Project duration: 2006-2007

This project is aimed:
Support of activities of Crisis Centre for women in crisis situations, providing women with medical, diagnostic and psychological services? Developing the World AIDS Day celebration.

Target groups: women in crisis situation (victims of violence, sexual exploitation, trafficking, ones who have leaved from priason)

Project start 2005

Program ERATO is performed in partnership with NGO ACT UP HELLAS (Greece) and NGO Odyseus (Slovak Republic).
In the frame of the project activities on providing information are performed. The project is aimed on providing access to diagnostic and health services for sex workers and victims of human trafficking.
Target groups:

Project start 2004 

Target group:

• sex workers working in Lviv and Lviv region

Materials produced:

a) Leaflets:

• Hey girl, take care of yourself
•  
HIV and AIDS
Sexually transmitted diseases
Condoms and lubricants
Contraception and pregnancy
Problems which could appear using condom

Target groups:

• women - victims of trafficking  
• teachers
• secondary schools students

Materials produced:

• "Let's talk about" - tutorial for trainers who develop the workshops on violence prevention
• "Let's talk about" - video cassette
• "Let's talk about" - CD

The project Take Care of Yourself is focused on increase of information among the population of Lviv region about danger of cervical cancer and about possible ways of its prevention. The aim of the project is improvement of women access to medical-diagnostic services, providing qualified diagnostic and in time treatment of cervical cancer cases. Duration of the project is 2 years.

• Design and publication of informational materials, concerning questions of cervical cancer prevention
• Organization of informational telephone line on cervical cancer problems.
• Organization of round tables with family doctors, dermatologists, post graduate physicians and teachers concerning cervical cancer prevention.
• Promotion for Lviv region women access to medical-diagnostic services, directed for early diagnostic of cervical cancer cases.
  

Target group:

• women of reproductive age

There are organized round tables, press conferences, meetings with representatives of self support groups under the project. The aim of the project is organization of testing, design of informational and educational materials, basic research of behavior of sex business women. 
 

The Centre provides women and girls victims of rape with medical and psychological care and diagnostics of STIs and HIV.

• women in crisis situation

• the victims of trafficking in women after their return back to Ukraine

• Diagnostics and medical treatment of STIs
• Psychological counceling

• lections and trainings for medical workers and women about the STIs and cervical cancer prevention
• development of the system for prompt diagnosing of the cervical cancer on early stages
• diagnostics and treatment

• women of reproductive age living in Lviv region

• booklet "How To Awoid Chronical Pelvic Inflammatory Diseases,
• methodical broshure "Method of Polimerise Chain Reaction (PCR) and its advantages in diagnosing of urogenital infections",
• poster "Pro Feminae - women, take care of yourselfes"

The project is supported by the Open Society Institute. It has started in January 2001. It is planned to develop HIV prevention activity among the sex workers-drug users, to provide them with syringes, needles, condoms and lubricants, to publish the information leaflets about the STIs and AIDS, to ensure the access to medical and social services.

• consultation of gynecologist, dermatologist and genito-urinary physytian
• pre- and after- testing councelling regarding HIV/AIDS
• diagnostics and treatment of STI's
• syringe exchange
• distribution of desinfectants, condoms and lubricants
• informational services
• outreach work

• representatives of commercial sex business,
• injective drugs users

• booklets "How To Protect Yourself - Advisory For Women in Sex Business",
• "HIV/AIDS",
• "Hepatitis",
• "What Does the STI Mean",
• calendar "Moon Light"

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