AFIF - AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW Tajikistan)

"Afif" is the Republican Public Organization legally registered by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Tajikistan. It has the Main office in capital city Dushanbe and Representation office in Khatlon region (that operates as а community based organization). The history of “Afif” started in early 2003 as a representative office of the Dutch humanitarian organization AIDS Foundation East-West (AFEW), and up to date had transformations, re-branding, change the Statutes and expanding areas for its activities. In 2013, the Republican Public Organization “AFEW-Tajikistan” was established on the basis of the Representative office of the Dutch humanitarian organization AIDS Foundation East-West. In 2019, the General Assembly of the founders of the "AFEW-Tajikistan", taking into account the desire of the Organization to expand the scope and areas of its activities, decided to change the Charter and rename the Organization into Republican Public Organization "Afif" (RPO "Afif"). Thus, the organization can implement projects not only for prevention of infectious diseases, but in other humanitarian areas as protection of the rights of deported labor migrants - women and people with disabilities, water sanitation, awareness raising of law enforcement officers, improving the convicts access to timely diagnosis and quality medical care, etc.