Stichting AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW) – is a dutch, non-governamental, humanitarian, public health organization whose mission is to make a major contribution to the reduction of the impact of HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) by:
- Taking an innovative and pro-active approach to developing, implementing and promoting tools for effective HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support, designed for and appropriate to the specific conditions of EECA;
- Targeting the younger generation of the region, in particular those engaging in risky behaviour;
- Co-operating closely with national governmental and non-governmental structures to boost local coping capacities and to advocate for appropriate action;
- Strengthening East-West engagement by exchanging knowledge and people via programme activities and stimulating a committed response.
Currently, AFEW operates in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia through six programme streams:
- Harm reduction training
- Pre- and Post-HIV test counselling
- Prevention of mother-to-child-transmission of HIV
- HIV prevention and health promotion among sex workers
- Media campaigns on safer sex and solidarity with people living with HIV/AIDS
- HIV prevention and health promotion in prisons