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ARF celebrates the New Year with children of project participants
On January 2, a Grandpa Frost and Snow Maiden from the Andrey Rylkov Foundation visited five children from four families of drug dependent people and celebrated the New Year with them. There were a...
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Help ARF keep going until June!
Dear Friends! The Andrey Rylkov Foundation (ARF) needs your help again. Since the start of its crowd funding campaign through Global Giving, over 100 caring friends of the foundation like you donated a...
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Moscow Harm Reduction Project Annual Anti-Report 2014 “Contrary to…”
We used to write annual reports in a utilitarian fashion. They were dull and dry, with figures and tables. It was like torture because for most people, writing reports and reading them causes a strong...
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People talk in support of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation!
In 2013 when we once again experienced another financial crizis our friends from the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union filmed and published on Youtube a number of our friends and drug policy experts from...
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To keep our services going we need funding! Please support ARF!
Andrey Rylkov Foundation is a small community based organization and the only organization that provides harm reduction, HIV prevention and human rights protection to people who use drugs in Moscow....
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While Russia grapples with HIV epidemic, Moscow’s addicts share their filthy...
Author: Alec Luhn Almost as soon as two HIV-prevention activists set up outside the pharmacy in the outskirts of Moscow with two huge backpacks of supplies, a skinny young man with mussed hair and an...
View ArticleAndrey Rylkov Foundation inputed to the UNGASS 2016
In May 2015 members of the Russian Civil Society Mechanism for Monitoring of Drug Policy Reforms in Russia, with technical assistance of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice and...
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On the results of ARF participation in “Support. Don’t punish” campaign 2015
Text: Max Malishev. Photos: Ivan Ridm (first one), Tamara Teneta (others) Support but not a punishment! Accessible treatment and rehabilitation instead of criminalization and prison! Medical help...
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Russia has a serious HIV crisis, and the government is to blame
By Amar Toor Maxim Malyshev’s life changed with a phone call in 1997. He was addicted to heroin at the time, and had just been arrested for possession in his hometown of Tver, Russia, about 100 miles...
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Children – they are always children…please support today our work with...
Children – they are always children… They like to play, want to be happy, to learn something new, to study…this is the same for all children and it doesn’t matter if they are children of people who use...
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Injection-related disorders among Moscow street drug users
Our medical consultant Sonia Fedorova participated in the Lisbon Addictions conference (the First European conference on addictive behaviours and dependencies) that was held in Lisbon (Portugal) on...
View ArticleSeeking justice for people who inject drugs in Moscow
Russia is home to 69% of all people living with HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and its HIV epidemic is concentrated among people who inject drugs. In Moscow alone there were more than 30,000...
View ArticleHCLU film about the Andrey Rylkov Foundation got the 2nd Prize at Heath...
Milan, Italy, October 16th, 2015 – the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) launched the inaugural Health Rights Video Film Festival. The online film festival...
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Boycott or support?
Author: Max Malyshev, editor of the independent newspaper reporting on drug related issues Shlyapa and Bayan, Andrey Rylkov Foundation Very soon, on 23 – 24 March 2016, Moscow will host the 5th Eastern...
View ArticleRussia HIV infection bucks trends as World Aids Day marked
MOSCOW (AP) — On a frigid evening on the outskirts of Moscow, two HIV-prevention activists unzip backpacks, pull out packs of hypodermic needles and start discretely approaching people leaving a nearby...
View ArticleThe Kremlin shows the word how to make an AIDS crisis worse
By Marc Bennets “I may be small, but I am strong,” says Anya Alimova, a 29-year-old with green hair, as she picks up a heavy backpack bulging with syringes, condoms, HIV tests and other related items....
View ArticleTB, Stigma, and Drug Control: A case from Russia
Text: Mikhail Golichenko, Senior Policy Analyst, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Source: http://www.aidslaw.ca/site/tuberculosis-stigma-and-drug-control-a-case-from-russia/ In December 2015, I attended...
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Happy New Year for children of drug addicts
This is the second year the Andrey Rylkov Foundation organized a New Year celebration for the children of the participants of our project on HIV prevention among people who inject drugs, “Harm...
View ArticleRussia activists struggle to raise HIV awareness as epidemic grows
Text: Maria Panina Moscow (AFP) – Vadim Pokrovsky stunned hundreds of students at a conference in Moscow last week when he reached into his pocket and took out a condom. “And you, the young generation,...
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Housewarming for the new office!
Dear friends! We are happy to share with you our joy of having a new tiny office – after we worked for seven years without one, we were finally able to rent one thanks to the money from the Global Fund...
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