On 6-7 June 2017, within the working visit of representatives of the French international technical expertise agency, Expertise France – project manager Mari Martin and health expert Lisa Huang – to Ukraine, meetings were organized with representatives of the Alliance for Public Health and pilot projects from five cities of Ukraine implementing the project “Capacity Development for Quality Assured Gender Sensitive Harm Reduction Interventions in Ukraine”.

On 6 June, guests took part in the working meeting of Alliance implementing partners – Convictus (Kyiv), Victoria (Khmelnytskyi), The Way Home (Odesa), Public Health (Kryvyi Rih) and Return to Life (Kropyvnytskyi). At the meeting, the participants discussed the interventions implemented within the project, their linkage with the Global Fund project, OST program, their impact on the lives of clients as well as prospects of institutionalization and long-term implementation of project interventions.

Next day, the guests visited Convictus NGO and learned about the practical aspects of implementing the gender project, talked to staff members and clients of the project.

Besides, the French guests invited their Ukrainian colleagues to present the results of project activities at the symposium within the IAS Conference (IAS2017) to be held in 23-26 July 2017 in Paris.

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