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Completed projects

Project Objective: The project will increase awareness of safe sex practices among women selling sex on roads and their clients by means of targeted prevention interventions.

Brief description: The project aims to reduce the prevalence and strengthen prevention of HIV, AIDS and STIs among road-based commercial sex workers, long-haul truck drivers and traffic police officers.

The Project is registered by the Department on humanitarian activity in the Republic of Belarus , Certificate ¹ 03-12/225.

03/2007 - 03/2008

Minsk and Svetlogorsk (Gomel Oblast)

US$ 62,500

UNDP, UNAIDS

US$ 48,961

Development planning, implementation and HIV/AIDS responses

National NGO The Republican Public Organization «Belarusian Association of UNESCO Clubs»

Project Manager: Rodionova Helena
t./f. (+375 17) 237 87 91;
e-mail:

UNDP Programme Officer: Ms. Alina Ostling
E-mail:

Project Document

Expected Results

1. To establish a framework for provision of targeted services to CSW on highways and their immediate environment;

2. To strengthen collaboration with government institutions andNGOs;

3. To raise awareness of HIV, AIDS and STIs among the target groups by using the media and FM radio projects

14 November 2007: Information Campaign against HIV/AIDS/STIs

17 July 2007: New FM initiative to improve public awareness of HIV/AIDS and STIs

9 April 2007: UNDP New Project “Prevention of HIV, AIDS and STIs among Commercial Sex Workers on Highways”