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ARF project “Strengthening the response to the growing needs of women who use...
By Andrey Rylkov Foundation for Health and Social Justice (Moscow, Russia) f Project aim: To protect health and human rights of women who use drugs (WUD) and are vulnerable to HIV by enabling their...
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Against the grain: the story of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation
By Anya Sarang for the AIDS Today of the International Alliance on HIV\AIDS Anya’s work over the past 11 years has focused on developing and supporting the emerging harm reduction movement in Russia....
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We need to change our fundraising strategy!
Dear supporters! We have to share one important decision with you. After 2.5 years we decided to deactivate the project at Global Giving platform aimed at collecting money for the outreach bus. We will...
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ARF celebrates the New Year with children of project participants
On January 2, a Grandpa Frost and Snow Maiden from the Andrey Rylkov Foundation visited five children from four families of drug dependent people and celebrated the New Year with them. There were a...
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Help ARF keep going until June!
Dear Friends! The Andrey Rylkov Foundation (ARF) needs your help again. Since the start of its crowd funding campaign through Global Giving, over 100 caring friends of the foundation like you donated a...
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Moscow Harm Reduction Project Annual Anti-Report 2014 “Contrary to…”
We used to write annual reports in a utilitarian fashion. They were dull and dry, with figures and tables. It was like torture because for most people, writing reports and reading them causes a strong...
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People talk in support of the Andrey Rylkov Foundation!
In 2013 when we once again experienced another financial crizis our friends from the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union filmed and published on Youtube a number of our friends and drug policy experts from...
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Somehow Grandfather Frost doesn’t come to drug users’ families…
Text: Anastasiya Kuzina Translation: Alec Khachatrian Sourse: Andrey Rylkov Foundation Blog at Radio Echo of Moscow website Last Friday, a small but nice group, families of drug users with their...
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Children – they are always children…please support today our work with...
Children – they are always children… They like to play, want to be happy, to learn something new, to study…this is the same for all children and it doesn’t matter if they are children of people who use...
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A lot was done but help it still needed
About the tragedy happened with Kirill Vorob’ev (aka Bayan Shirianov) – a writer beloved by many, well known by his novels about the life of Moscow drug users – we read in the newspaper. Being...
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Injection-related disorders among Moscow street drug users
Our medical consultant Sonia Fedorova participated in the Lisbon Addictions conference (the First European conference on addictive behaviours and dependencies) that was held in Lisbon (Portugal) on...
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Happy New Year for children of drug addicts
This is the second year the Andrey Rylkov Foundation organized a New Year celebration for the children of the participants of our project on HIV prevention among people who inject drugs, “Harm...
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Bringing our services to a new level!
Michel Kazatchkine, United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, visits the night outreach Dear friends!! We are happy to share with you some great news about a recent...
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Housewarming for the new office!
Dear friends! We are happy to share with you our joy of having a new tiny office – after we worked for seven years without one, we were finally able to rent one thanks to the money from the Global Fund...
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Michel Kazatchkine about the work of our project “Harm Reduction – Moscow”
Michel Kazatchkine, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Late evening on the first day of my visit to the Russian Federation last month, we...
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Help ARF keep going until June!
Dear Friends! The Andrey Rylkov Foundation (ARF) needs your help again. Since the start of its crowd funding campaign through Global Giving, over 100 caring friends of the foundation like you donated a...
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How we helped parents to get their children ready for school in 2016
We have developed our “children’s project” for more than 2 years. The purpose of this project is to make it possible for our drug using clients to have warm, friendly interactions with their children....
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2015 – 2016: Two More Years of Saving Lives
The report is dedicated to the memory of our friend and colleague Dalja who did so much for others but left us too soon Since the Andrey Rylkov Foundation (ARF) was founded in 2009, we have been on a...
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Andrey Rylkov Foundation: Provision of Harm Reduction Services in Moscow in 2017
You may download the PDF version of the report here Background Since 2009, we provide harm reduction services to people who use drugs in Moscow. The political and financial climate as well as the...
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Please support the production of the film about our friend Kostya Proletarsky
On 19 June 2009 Kostya Proletarsky, a drug user and HIV activist, died of tuberculosis meningitis at the Botkin Hospital in St. Petersburg, Russia. His death was the result of three years of...
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