'We dare to work under difficult situations'

How do you end AIDS when there's a war on?

"We don't stop our job," says Bekele Senbete, Executive Director, Organisation for Social Services, Health and Development (OSSHD). 

This week we look at how creativity, compassion, and coffee ceremonies play their part. From AI support in Ukraine and sipping coffee together in Ethiopia, to finding shelter for gender minorities in Lebanon, we learn from Frontline AIDS’ partners working as conflicts rage on.

Working in organisations at different stages of war, Bekele Senbete, Executive Director, Organisation for Social Services, Health and Development (OSSHD), Ethiopia, Tetiana Deshko, Associate Director of Programmes, Alliance for Public Health (APH), Ukraine, and Nadia Badran, Executive Director, Society for Inclusion and Development in Communities and Care (SIDC), Lebanon, share how their organisations play a crucial part in their countries humanitarian efforts building on years of community-based care and support.

For more information about the link between HIV and gender-based violence, visit: https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/hiv-and-aids/violence-against-women

Read about an alarming surge in HIV infections  in five countries in the Middle East and North Africa in our new report 'HIV prevention and accountability: A multi-country perspective' - https://frontlineaids.org/report-warns-of-escalating-hiv-epidemic-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa/

For more information about Alliance for Public Health’s response during the war in Ukraine, visit: https://frontlineaids.org/providing-healthcare-two-years-on-from-the-ukraine-invasion/ 

For more information about addressing HIV in  humanitarian settings, visit: https://www.beintheknow.org/understanding-hiv-epidemic/context/humanitarian-crises-and-hiv  

Produced and presented by Lola Abayomi, Frontline AIDS and Nick Raistrick, Frontline AIDS 

Music by Lee Sparey