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1.
Associazione Nazionale per la Lotta contro l’AIDS - Sez.Lombardia
(Italy)
 ANLAIDS
has been founded on the 26th of July 1985. The Lombardy branch of
ANLAIDS:
- Supports the Clinical Research.
- Promotes Studies and Researches on
AIDS.
- Gives scholarships and grants.
- Organizes training courses for
health care workers and volunteers.
- Promotes and improves life and
health conditions of people living in the Developing countries.
- Organizes Health Education and
Prevention campaigns by publishing pamphlets and implementing ad
hoc activities in schools, work places and other meeting venues.
- Supports the HOSPICE in
Abbiategrasso.
- Supports the Dental Care Center
– Luigi Sacco Hospital.
www.anlaids.it
2. Bulgarian Family
Planning and Sexual Health Association (Bulgaria)
 The
Bulgarian Family Planning and Sexual Health Association (BFPA)
activities are oriented towards several main areas of work –
access to health care services, sexual and reproductive health and
rights (SRHR), health and sexuality education, gender issues,
generic cmapaigns and pR strategies on reducing stigma and
discrimination, trafficking of human beings, sustainable
development in terms of linkage between SRHR and poverty as well
as towards prevention measures of HIV/AIDS and sexually
transmitted infections. The target groups of the organization are
various and include mainstream young people, women in reproductive
age, state, local and school authorities, health professionals,
NGO and community leaders, teachers, journalists. BFPA puts
special focus on marginalized and socially deprived groups – Roma,
other ethnic minorities, blind and deaf children, PLHIV, young
people with disabilities, rural women, children in institutions,
young people with criminal record.
www.safesex.bg
3. Regional Public
Health Authority in Košice (Slovak Republic)
 The Regional Public Health Authority
in Košice:
- Monitors relations between health
determinants and public health.
- Increases health literacy.
- Manages prevention of diseases and
other defects of health.
- Deals with the influence of
working conditions to health of workers.
- Orders and repeals measures for
prevention of diseases.
- Coordinates surveillance of
infectious diseases.
- Monitors quality of drinking water
supply and quality of water for recreation.
- Monitors quality of food.
- Values interaction between
important aspects of children and young population living
conditions (environment, life style, nutrition) and their state of
health.
- Observes the radiation burden of
inhabitants in connection with natural and artificial
radioactivity and regulates the radiation burden of patients and
staff in connection of ionizing radiation in health services.
www.ruvzke.sk
4. Terrence Higgins
Trust
 THT
was one of the first charities to be set up in response to the HIV
epidemic and has been at the forefront of the fight against HIV
and AIDS ever since. THT has 25 years of experience in HIV
prevention and sexual health promotion. Young people are one of
our key target groups with whichwe work. We have experience in
delivering numerous projects aimed at young people, including peer
education, resource and campaign development.
Our objectives are:
- to reduce the spread of HIV and
STIs and promote good sexual health;
- to campaign for greater public
understanding of the personal, social and medical impact of HIV
and sexual ill health.
www.tht.org.uk
5. “Stefan S. Nicolau” - Institute of virology
 The Stefan S. Nicolau Institute of
Virology of Bucharest (IVN) was founded in 1949. IVN is dedicated
to both fundamental research and applied clinical studies in viral
epidemiology, viral vaccines, viral nucleic acid infectivity,
immunity in viral infections, antiviral chemotherapy.
In the last three years IVN has
developed important research programs not only in the domain of
viral diseases of public health relevance (AIDA, viral hepatitis,
respiratory viral diseases, emerging viral diseases), but also in
neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders, cancer, antiviral and
antitumoral therapy, with significant results in health care.
The Institute bridges the gap
between clinical investigation and the application of basic
science in order to understand the pathogenesis of the infectious
diseases, their diagnosis and optimal management, prevention and
control. Multidisciplinary groups are studying different aspects
of infectious diseases> from epidemiology and field work, to
patient’s care, from the relationship between the host immune
response and the pathogen’s virulence factors, to molecular
genetics and vaccine design.
Cross-cutting themes are addressed
through cooperation with other Romanian and international research
teams. Researchers involved in doctoral or post-doctoral programs
are trained in IVN not only in virology, but also in related
disciplines: biochemistry, biophysics, molecular biology,
pharmacology, immunology and informatics. IVN has been frequently
visited by policy makers from European countries, serving as a
model for collaborative research.
IVN is located in a three floors
building situated in Bucharest down town area, close to one of the
main Bucharest Infectious Diseases Hospital.
The Institute mission is to support
the national strategy in combating the infectious disease by:
- generating reports that increase
the range, quality and relevance of the national agenda for health
policy and medical practice;
- testing the practical application
of new diagnostic technologies in various field conditions,
thereby increasing their operational relevance;
- developing new antivirals and
therapeutical technologies that meet the needs of health care
practitioners.
www.virology.ro
6. Lithuanian AIDS
center
 LAC
was established in 1989 by an order of the Minister of Health and
placed outside pre-existing institutions and health care units.
Centre’s mission – HIV/AIDS prevention and control in Lithuania to
reduce population mortality from AIDS and morbidity of HIV disease.
The Centre is also in charge for health care of population groups
at higher risk to acquire HIV, of people with HIV and AIDS. The
AIDS Centre includes the following departments: Laboratory,
Outpatient Dep. (including Anonymous Testing Sites, Women’s Health
Site, Harm Reduction Room, Youth Consultation Site, Target Group
Health Site, Counselling Site, Public Education Dep.,
International Projects Dep., and Dependence Diseases Dep. (including
Day Care Centre for Girls at Risk). The activity fields of the
Centre are: care and treatment of people with HIV and AIDS, public
education, laboratory testing, etc. anonymous testing and
counselling, epidemiology surveillance and data evaluation, social
rehabilitation of drug users, AIDS advocacy, etc.
www.aids.lt
7. Regional
Institute of Public Health based in Ústí nad Labem
 The
Regional Institute of Public Health is a health-care facility
estabilitished for basic preventive disciplines – hygiene,
epidemiology, mikrobiology, immunology and occupation medicine.
All activities are aimed on population in the Northern Bohemia
particularly but cooperation in national and international
projects is common. In the field of health promotion and disease
prevention, RIHP concrentrates on the most urgent health problems
– for example: HIV/AIDS and another infection (STI), healthy life
style (prevention of obesity, drug and tobaco). We have consulting
rooms for people which have risk of HIV infection in area Nothern
Bohemia. This rooms exist in five places-cities in our region. Our
workers – physicians, psychologist a nurses conduct counselling
and testing persons with risk. The next activity is primary
prevention in this field. This aims at the education of young
people, students, pupils and the other groups with risk behaviour.
www.zuusti.cz
8. Network Persone
Sieropositive Italia
 NPS is a
body in continuous evolution composed by a team that works in
independent way and opened to other patients associations involved
in the chronic diseases care for the common interest of the Health
Right and the Quality of Life, collaborating with the different
public institutions and the pharmaceutical companies in the mutual
respect of the roles.
NPS objectives are:
- to provide information on the
therapies and their collaterals effects;
- to fight for the uniformity of
care of the sick people at national level, overcoming the
disparity linked to the decentralization of the National Health
care system, by means of the creation and the strengthening of
regional and local networks with other Associations;
- to protect people living with HIV
through information and awareness, making more easy the
collaboration with the doctors in order to facilitate the job and
to fight the prejudgments about this pathology;
- to update continuously on the new
experimentations, giving evidence also to the ethical-social
problems emerged with the new therapies of the pharmaceutical
companies; - to disseminate lawful insurance and medical
information;
- to fight the discrimination for
the access and the maintenance of the job and cares;
- to make prevention;
- to act with such purposes in every
region according to the local context and differences;
- to cooperate not only with people
living with HIV but also with other associations that have the
same objectives;
- in particular, to protect
prisoners living with HIV.
www.npsitalia.net
9. Centrul
Profilaxia s.r.l.
 PROFILAXIA Medical Centre is a
Preventive Medical Society.The main mission of the Centre is to
contribute to communication development, reinforcement and the
exchange of ideas and good practices in the field of CD Prevention
between Decision makers, Health Professionals and the Community.
The activity is based upon detection and assesment of health
related risks, early detection of diseases and design of
appropriated prevention and control measures. The Centre acts as a
connecting element between the medical academic field, policy
makers, local communities and the general public. Goals: data
collection, analysis and dissemination; promotion of information
exchange and interinstitutional cooperation, NGO’s, other similar
centres, as well as between persons interested in Communicable
Diseases.
Main Activities:
1. Prophylactic vaccination against
infectious diseases;
2. Vaccine therapies;
3. Epidemiological Consultance;
4. Medical Research;
5. Health Promotion and Training in
Preventive Medicine.
www.profilaxia.ro
10. Counselling
Service "Praxis Psychosoziale Beratung"
 Since
1990 psycho-social counselling services for people with HIV and
AIDS in the HIVCENTER at the Frankfurt university hospital
“Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität” have been
provided.
Psycho-social counselling services
for patients with HIV and AIDS or other chronic diseases include:
• Questions regarding HIV-prevention.
• HIV- and AIDS-counselling.
• Social issues and labour laws,
retirement pay, etc.
• Help in situations of acute crisis.
• Psychotherapeutic support.
• Assistance with regard to coping
with the disease.
• Contacts to groups and other
support services.
• Support of the patient’s
compliance.
• HIV and AIDS-counselling,
psychotherapy, supervision for institutions, companies,
counselling services, self-help organisations, etc.
• Computer aided counselling,
development of concepts and professional editing of materials for
your web page, setting up of online information services for
patients and experts.
Data bank with more than 8,000
addresses about different topics such as AIDS, drugs, public
health departments, medicine, psychotherapy, self-help groups, and
so on. Inquiries, research concerning different psycho-social
topics and questions. Concept development and support with regard
to public relations, publications of books and information
brochures.
Planning, organisation and
certification, training seminars addressing specific topics,
meetings and seminars for self-help groups or groups working in
the fields of social science, drug addiction, pharmacology or
health.
http://praxis-psychosoziale-beratung.de/
11. Therapy
Center for Dependent Individuals (KETHEA) Greece
 KETHEA
(acronym for Therapy Center for Dependent Individuals) is a
non-profit organization that has been operating since 1983, when
ITHAKI, the first Greek therapeutic community for drug addicts was
established. ΚΕΤΗΕΑ, in special consultative status with the UΝ
Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), is the first organisation
set up in Greece (Law 1729787) for the purposes of treatment,
prevention, professional training and research in the field of
drug addiction. ΚΕΤΗΕΑ currently operates a nation-wide network of
services and is been one of the principal implementation bodies of
the Greek National Strategy against drugs. Αll services are
provided free of charge and don’t employ pharmaceutical substances
or substitutes for the treatment of addiction. They are designed
to meet the needs of users with different profiles: adults,
adolescents, prisoners, addicted mothers, migrants, etc. In
addition, they are provided without any discrimination. ΚΕΤΗEA is
board member of the World Federation of Therapeutic Communities (WFTC),
of the European Federation of Therapeutic Communities (EFTC) and
of the International Federation of "Non-Government Organisations
for the Prevention of Drug and Substance Abuse (ΙFΝGΟ). It is a
member" of the International Council on Alcohol and Addictions (ICAA),
of the Prevention Network RADAR and a member of the forum of
Family Therapy Training Institutes of the European Family Therapy
Association (ΕFTΑ). ΚΕΤΗΕΑ is also associated with the UΝ Public
Information Department (DΡΙ) aiming at providing information to
large sectors of the society regarding drug related issues.
www.kethea.gr
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