HIV Coordination, Adolescent Reproductive and School Health
Network Activities
Central Asia
Forthcoming Events Organised by UNESCO Almaty Office
Regional Workshop for Media: HIV/AIDS Topics in Mass Media
Almaty, Kazakhstan
September 2006
The workshop is targeted journalists in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It aims to improve interpersonal communication skills of journalists for increasing understanding of sensitive issues related to HIV/AIDS.
Organiser: UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Internews Kazakhstan.
Contact: irina[at]internews.kz ; or
s.karpov[at]unesco.org ; or
g.li[at]unesco.org
Workshops for Teachers of Teacher Training Colleges and Representatives of Education Departments
Shymkent (South Kazakhstan) and Astana city, Kazakhstan
October 2006
The purpose of the workshops will be presentation of the Manual on HIV prevention for Teacher Training Colleges.
Organisers: Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Kazakhstan, Education departments of Shymkent and Astana, UNESCO Almaty, National Healthy Lifestyle Center, and National in-service Teacher Training Institute
Contact: ripkso[at]nursat.kz; or
National Conference for Education Sector in Tajikistan
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
November 2006
The purpose of the conference is to introduce the Advocacy Toolkit “HIV/AIDS and Education” adapted by the Ministry of Education
Organisers: Ministry of Education of the Republic of Tajikistan with technical and financial support of UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office and UNCEF Tajikistan
Contact: zujalol[at]unescotj.tajik.net
National Conference for Education Sector in Republic of Kyrgyzstan
Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
November 2006
The purpose of the conference is to introduce and to promote the use of the Advocacy Toolkit “HIV/AIDS and Education” adapted by Ministry of Education, Science and Youth Policy of Kyrgyz Republic.
Organisers: Ministry of Education, Science and Youth Policy of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan and technical and financial support of UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office.
Contact: valentina@monk.bishkek.gov.kg
or vika[at]monk.bishkek.gov.kg
Future Activities
Kazakhstan
August 2006
Additional copies of Advocacy Toolkit “HIV/AIDS and Education” will be reprinted in Kazakhstan.
1200 copies will be reprinted in Kazakhstan. Advocacy Toolkit “HV/AIDS and Education” is aimed on representatives of Ministry of Education, Education Departments and heads of education institutions providing the evidence based information on HIV/AIDS.
September 2006
Manual on HIV prevention for Teacher Training Colleges will be published in
640 copies will be printed in Kazakhstan. The Manual was adapted by Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Kazakhstan
These two activities will be organised by UNESCO Almaty and National in-service Teacher Training Institute.
Contact information: ripkso[at]nursat.kz , +7 (3272) 26 90 21, +7 (3172) 75 24 64, g.li[at]unesco.org, +7 (3272) 58 26 43 (ext.1403)
Tajikistan
September 2006
Advocacy Toolkit “HIV/AIDS and Education” will be published. It was adapted by Working Group under the leadership of Ministry of Education of the Republic of Tajikistan with technical and financial support of UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office and UNCEF Tajikistan.
Contact information: +7 10 992 372 23 37 66; zujalol[at]unescotj.tajik.net , 7 10 992 372 21 17 50
Kyrgyz Republic
September - October 2006
Advocacy Toolkit “HIV/AIDS and Education” will be published in Republic of Kyrgyzstan.
Advocacy Toolkit “HIV/AIDS and Education” was adapted by Working Group under the leadership of Ministry of Education, Science and Youth Policy and the support of UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office.
Contact information: valentina[at]monk.bishkek.gov.kg , 8 10 992 312 62 68 42; vika@monk.bishkek.gov.kg , 8 10 992 312 62 12 27;
Central Asia region
1st December 2006
Jonathan Mann Award
Jonathan Mann Award was established in 1999, in order to encourage HIV/AIDS prevention efforts among civil society, media and government institutions in the Central Asia region. The event will be organised with UNESCO Almaty, UNAIDS.
Contact: g.li[at]unesco.org, +7 (3272) 58 26 43 (ext.1403);
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Regional Training of Trainers Workshop: “Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV/AIDS”
Almaty, Kazakhstan
28-31 March 2005
The worshop aims to build the capacity of a core group of trainers to train, sensitise and build a supportive environment for implementing an effective national response to HIV prevention. [More]
UNESCO Almaty Office for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan: HIV/AIDS–Related Activities: An Update
(contributed by Aliya Bokazhanova, February 2005)
Current year UNESCO Almaty office implemented project within of UNAIDS PAF, the project entitle "Strengthening Technical Capacities of Policy Makers, Professional and NGOs from Central Asian Countries to Implement Key Activities in HIV/AIDS Responses through the Series of Training of Trainers Workshops". The main output and outcome of the project are as follows:
Output
- Skills of a core group of regional trainers strengthened and enhanced in Central Asia to provide technical assistance to ensure that the regions’ proposals to the Global Fund are implemented and achieved
Outcomes
- Core trainers are identified, established and trained with a view to strengthening harm reduction programmes among vulnerable group of population in the Central Asia region
The key activities of the project are following:
1. Regional ToT workshop "Envisaging supportive legal and public environment to effective HIV/AIDS counteracting" (was done);
2. Regional ToT workshop "Review of regional experience in HIV/AIDS prevention among injecting drug users" (was done);
3. Regional ToT workshop "Review of regional experience in HIV/AIDS prevention among men having sex with men" (was done);
4. Regional ToT workshop "Review of regional experience in HIV/AIDS prevention among commercial sex workers" (was done);
5. Regional ToT workshop "Greater involvement of people living with HIV in counteracting HIV/AIDS epidemic" (was done);
6. Regional ToT workshop "Monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS counteracting among the vulnerable groups of population" (is planned).
UNESCO Cluster Office Almaty in collaboration with UNESCO Bangkok HIV/AIDS unit organized a regional workshop in order to presented and adapted a toolkit on HIV/AIDS to the representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science, Academy of Education, National Healthy Life Style Institute, Republican and City AIDS centers, selected city and oblast education departments, selected city and oblast in-service teacher training institutes, relevant international organizations such as UNAIDS, UNICEF and other.
Within UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office Regular programme “Promotion of preventive education in all learning setting” under RP MLA “Focusing on education and HIV/AIDS” were conducted two training courses for capacity building of trainers and teacher from different regions of Kazakhstan.
UNESCO Cluster Office Almaty is supporting regional activities on HIV/AIDS prevention such as INTO FOCUS newsletter and Jonathan Mann Awards jointly with other UN agencies as well as national and international organizations (UNAIDS,UNICEF,UNIFIM, WHO, UNDP, AFEW, PSI, Republican and regional AIDS Centers, National Healthy Life Style Institute, etc.)
World AIDS Day– 1 December 2004 UNESCO Almaty Office in collaboration with PSI/ USAID project and National Healthy Life Style Institute organized a festival addressed to young people. Message from Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of World AIDS Day was distributed among our partners from international and national organizations as well as mass media representatives.
For further information about UNESCO HIV/AIDS-related activities in Central Asia, please contact Galina Li, HIV/AIDS National Specialist at g.li[at]unesco.kz
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