Ten NGOs from across Poland will implement HIV/AIDS education campaigns next year.
Settlement of the Positively Open 2023 competition
Published Sept. 27, 2023 11:50
Nearly PLN 300,000 will be donated by Gilead Sciences to the winners of the Positively Open competition. With this money, 10 projects related to HIV testing and education about the prevention of the virus will be implemented in 2024. Volunteers and educators will be seen at Poland's biggest concerts, but also at more intimate entertainment events, as well as during the student juvenalia. There will be no shortage of innovative activities, such as a city game or a virtual HIV clinic, among others. All this to stop the alarming upward trend in the number of newly detected infections with the virus in Poland.
The chapter of the Positively Open competition, consisting of Dr. Regina Podlasin, Prof. Ewa Siwak, Prof. Mariusz Gujski, Janusz Michalak, Paweł Mierzejewski and Rev. Arkadiusz Nowak, has selected the winners of this year's edition. Grants will be awarded to the following organizations (alphabetical order):
- Social Education Foundation for the project "Positive Life - activities to support people living with HIV",
- Umbrella Foundation for the "Small Town" project,
- International Medical Students Association IFMSA-Poland for the project "A Streetcar Named Desire."
- Faros Association for the project "TestFEST - rapid testing for HIV, HCV and syphilis in the NGO zone at Open'Era 2024",
- Podwale Seven Association for the project "Virtual counseling center "You, it's here!" - education, prevention, support",
- Volunteers Against AIDS Association "Be with Us" for the project "Life is still cool."
- Youth Human Impact Association for its "Game of Life" project,
- The Society for the Development of the Family branch in Zielona Góra for the project "Action Love, Youth, Responsibility - educational-preventive and diagnostic activities concerning HIV, HCV and syphilis infections",
- Unite for People Living with HIV/AIDS "Positive in the Rainbow" for the project "Don't be dull!",
- Association of Associations Together in Olsztyn for the "Motanka" project.
Source: press mat.
