Evgeniia is a seasoned professional with over 8 years in public health and HIV/AIDS prevention, focusing on funding transitions in the EECA region. In HAC she expertly manages program development, execution, and oversight, ensuring alignment with strategic goals. Her leadership extends to team management, stakeholder engagement, and pioneering advocacy efforts in community mobilization as well as healthcare reform.
Having extensive experience in non-profit management and public health initiatives, Eter has been significantly involved in HAC projects since 2022. Her broad expertise includes project accounting, financial planning, and ensuring compliance with donor-funded programs.
Has more than 10 years of expertise in office administration and 7 years in managing documentation for NGOs focused on HIV/AIDS prevention and public health. Excels in supporting day-to-day operations and enhancing organizational efficiency, with a strong emphasis on compliance and detailed reporting in the non-profit sector.
Olena began her work as an advocate for the rights and well-being of women living with HIV, particularly HIV-positive pregnant women in Ukraine 2002. In 2015, co-founded the Eurasian Women Network on AIDS, the EECA regional network for women living with HIV. In 2016, she was a speaker at the High-Level meeting “On Ending AIDS” at the UN General Assembly in New York City. In 2018, she was a speaker at the Plenary session at the 22 nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS2018) and presented “Innovation around HIV and substance use” in EECA. From 2019 till 2021, Ms. Stryzhak served as the Chair of the International Community of Women Living with HIV, the only global network led by and for women living with HIV. Currently Olena leads the ‘Positive Women’ in Ukraine, the only national network of women living with HIV and continues to help women and girls living with HIV and from key populations to advocate for their rights.
A public health professional with extensive experience in HIV, health program management, advocacy and community engagement in the EECA region.
After receiving a degree in philosophy, Elena continued her education in public health, including at the Harvard School of Public Health, Mechnikov’s Medical University in St. Petersburg and the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Her experience spans management of the Global Fund -funded projects on HIV control in Russia, management of the GF portfolio of HIV and TB grants in EECA, community engagement, advocacy and corporate social responsibility at international pharmaceutical industry.
Sergey Golovin is a consultant on access to medicines and community-led monitoring in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He has been working in the field of treatment access for 15 years, specialising in community-led monitoring of medicines stock-outs, procurement and delivery of medicines as well as mitigating the impact of patent monopolies. Sergey has contributed to creating several successful CLM models, such a tracking stock-outs of medicines using a network of specialised “pereboi” websites and a system of monitoring access to medicines for treating HIV, HCV, and TB using market dynamics analysis.
Sergey has been involved in rapid response measures based on community-led monitoring of access to treatment during pandemics and humanitarian crises, and he is currently contributing to developing and implementing projects focusing on community-led monitoring of access to mental health services. He is a co-author of numerous reports, articles and policy papers on CLM and treatment access and regularly delivers trainings and presentations about key principles and models of community-led monitoring for community-based organisations across the globe.
With a Ph.D in International Law, Nataliia has a good experience of analytical writing in the field of HIV/AIDS, gender, human rights, sexual and reproductive health. Throughout her professional path she has been actively involved in coordinating human rights related projects both in NGO sector and governmental institutions.
The latest years she is specifically interested in programs on advocating women’s rights and rights of people living with HIV and belonging to key populations. Educated in English Translation, she is also frequently engaged in translating technical papers, analytical notes and reports, other general and legal texts in the field of HIV/AIDS and human rights.
Svitlana (Sveta) Moroz is a woman living with HIV and a women’s rights defender from Ukraine. Svitlana is a lead author of community-led research exploring gender inequality, sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender-based violence, human rights, mental health, HIV criminalisation.
She mobilized resources, built women’s capacities, and co-authored various shadow reports on the situation of women who use drugs, women living with HIV, sex workers, and LBT women submitted to the UN Committee CEDAW.
Together with her community colleagues from Eurasian Women’s Network on AIDS (EWNA) she advocates for adequate gender equality standards and commitments in HIV response in the EECA region. Under Svitlana’s leadership, in 2022-2023, EWNA carried out Women-led Gender Assessment: How countries address barriers to HIV services for women living with HIV, sex workers and women who use drugs, focusing on 15 countries of the SEECA region.
Anton is globally known activist of the community of people who use drugs and OST patients, people living with HIV and lived experience with HCV. Since 2010 started his work in HIV and TB-service, Harm Reduction and advocacy field in local and national NGOs in Ukraine.
Since 2013 worked for international Alliance for Public Health, coordinating international and national projects of HIV, TB, viral hepatitis prevention and treatment among key populations as well as advising on Communities, Rights and Gender issues. Author of different articles, guidelines and publications for communities and professionals. Founder of PUD.UA. Board member of INPUD and EKHN. Member of the Communities Delegation of the Global Fund Board and CCM of Ukraine. Master’s degree in international economy.
Alexandra is a prominent HIV activist and co-founder of Front-AIDS (Russia’s first treatment advocacy group) and Svecha (a community organization for HIV-positive individuals).
Now a Manager at GNP+, she has over 20 years of experience in HIV advocacy, focusing on stigma, discrimination, criminalization, and combining HIV with humanitarian responses, especially during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Sasha represents PLHIV community on global platforms like UNAIDS and the Global Fund.
Educated in social sciences with a master’s in International Relations and European Asian studies, Yuri is actively involved in LGBTQI human rights defense. His experience spans grassroots activism at “Gender Z” in Zaporizhzhya (Ukraine), project management at “Gay Alliance Ukraine”, and coordination of human rights initiatives in Estonia for ECOM.
Additionally, Yuri’s role includes combatting discrimination and strengthening legal frameworks for HIV services across Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Public Administration, he focuses on sustainable development for NGOs. His responsibilities also extend to ILGA World, emphasizing global advocacy.
A social researcher and public health professional, educated with a Master of Public Health from Lund University (Sweden) has been engaged since 2006 in various public health organizations across Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Expertise has been provided in the wellbeing of key and vulnerable populations, focusing on HIV, TB, and migration.
A postdoctoral researcher at the Cermes3 laboratory of Paris Cité University, a project supported by ANRS “Ukrainian refugees in receiving countries: barriers, coping strategies and community engagement to enable effective access to HIV and TB care” is currently being implemented. Additionally, responsibilities as an Academic Relations Coordinator at the Regional Expert Group on Migration and Health are held.
