Serbian non-profit organization
Yugoslav Youth Association Against AIDS – Youth of JAZAS (Serbian: Omladina JAZAS-a)[1] is non-profit, humanitarian organization committed to HIV prevention and support to the people living with HIV.
Ever since its establishment in 1994, it has continuously been implementing projects of
condoms
etc.
In addition, the Youth of JAZAS is also dedicated to vulnerable groups: people of different sexual orientations,
Members of Parliament
, ensuring that people living with HIV and vulnerable groups are involved in policy making processes at national and local level, and have their mandatory contribution to policies that guarantee their human rights and antidiscriminatory attitudes in Serbian Society.
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Activities
Peer education program
The Youth of JAZAS has 16-year-long experience in programs of
AIDS themselves. Within this program 230 000 people in
Serbia were trained.
Since its establishment, the Youth of JAZAS has chosen this kind of education and enabled young people to acquire the knowledge from their peers on the matters they are mostly concerned about: sensitive subjects of the HIV/AIDS,
peer educators which contain all the relevant information for their work. In 2003, the project
My right to know has been initiated by the Youth of JAZAS in cooperation with
UNICEF and five nongovernmental organizations: CEDEUM (Centre for education in drama and art), CRPHO (Centre for promotion of humane relations), SPY (Safe plus of youth), Friends of the children of Serbia i Roma educational centre.
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SOS and informational services
This segment includes
psychologists
.
Social marketing program
Activities of this organization include: production and distribution of advertising materials in
art exhibitions
and other activities.
Support to people living with HIV and vulnerable groups
The project „Acceptance and Participation of People Living with HIV in Serbian Society”PCR tests or the change of
legislation that criminalizes HIV transmission. This project was financed by the
European Commission and implemented in cooperation with
Hivos (Stichting Humanistisch Instituut voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking – Humanist Institute for Co-operation with Developing Countries) from
Netherlands
Cooperation with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Within Round 8
and to accomplish these goals:
- Securing the appropriate approach in the comprehensive prevention, treatment, caretaking and providing support to vulnerable groups;
- Enhancing the quality of caretaking and providing support to people living with HIV;
- Creating of supporting society background that would reinforce PLHIV;
- Empowering the system for tracking epidemics among the groups exposed to the highest risk.
Within the Round 8, Global Fund has granted Serbia financing to implement the national program "Strengthening HIV Prevention and Care for the Groups Most Vulnerable to HIV/AIDS" of 12.406.231
euros
total.
In April 2003 Global Fund has, within Round 1, granted 3.575.210
AIDS
in Serbia: Making of full scale state’s strategy and non-scheduled action plan”.
In October 2006 five year long project of maximum 9 million
has been granted for the period from 2007 to 2012.
The whole project implementation by the Youth of JAZAS has been divided into different sectors of service provision. These include: intravenous
sex workers, adolescents at highest risk - MARA (Most At Risk Adolescents), young
Romani decision makers, PLHIV as well as
International Help Network from
Belgrade for reduction of
stigma in all environments, strengthening of civil society and all participants on
gender issues and institutional increase of capacities.
Activities for the World AIDS Day
Reception by the Lady Speaker of Serbian Parliament
On the occasion of the
National Assembly Speaker,
Slavica Đukić Dejanović.
[4] This opportunity for the self-help groups to present their problems on such a high level was initiated by the Youth of JAZAS for the fifteen-year anniversary of the Organization. The intention was to present issues PLHIV in Serbia are facing, especially treatment issues, to discuss the possibilities of support from the National Assembly of Serbia in terms of creating the legal frame for improvement of PLHIV's treatment and status, namely the legislation of the transmission of HIV and all this resulted in Lady Speaker’s address to
Prime Minister of Republic of Serbia on the very matter of the discussion.
Activities on the occasion of the World AIDS Day
The Youth of JAZAS organizes different activities for 1 December aimed to the fight against
epidemics
.
References
External links
Serbia