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XVIII International AIDS Conference, 18-23 July, Vienna, Austria

Community Systems Strengthening: what works? How has funding support for CSS strengthened local responses to HIV in different contexts? ECUO case studies. . XVIII International AIDS Conference, 18-23 July, Vienna, Austria. Structure. Definition of the community in terms of CSS and ECUO

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XVIII International AIDS Conference, 18-23 July, Vienna, Austria

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  1. Community Systems Strengthening: what works? How has funding support for CSS strengthened local responses to HIV in different contexts? ECUO case studies. XVIII International AIDS Conference, 18-23 July, Vienna, Austria

  2. Structure • Definition of the community in terms of CSS and ECUO • What CSS is for? Impact of CSS • How the CSS impact could be reached? • What is required for community systems to be strengthened? • Conclusion, Next steps

  3. Definition of the community in terms of CSS and ECUO ECUO – joins PLHIV organizations and networks from 15 EECA countries • Communities are formed by people who are connected to each other in distinct and varied ways • Communities are those who are affected by conditions such as HIV and have the greatest difficulty in achieving their rights to health • Community organisations are all those who act at community level to deliver activities and promote improved practice and policies

  4. What CSS is for? Impact of CSS “After we kick the shit out of this disease I intend to be alive to kick the shit out of this system so that it will never happen again” Vito Russo, HIV activist

  5. What CSS is for? Impact of CSS

  6. How the CSS impact could be reached?

  7. What is required for community systems to be strengthened?

  8. Conclusion • People with a self motivation could make meaningful input to the epidemic overcoming • This force is a catalyst of the changes, which lead to saving of many people lives

  9. Conclusion, Next steps • In 6 countries of EECA СSS component was included into the R10 proposal (Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Ukraine) • ECUO in cooperation with Curatio are ready to work with the Global Fund in EECA to monitor the roll out of CSS, to capture lessons from the implementation of CSS interventions and to oversee the continuation of the development of a module in the M&E

  10. «The Eastern European and Central Asia Union of People Living with HIV is an inspiring example of how to unify and mobilize people living with HIV as a force for social transformation», - Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS speech (opening ceremony of the Moscow conference, October 28th, 2009)

  11. Thank you! www.ecuo.org secretariat@ecuo.org

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