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Yana Panfilova

Yana is 22 years old, she is Ukrainian and has a bachelor’s degree in social work (Academy of Labor, Social Relations and Tourism). She is the Chair of the Board of the “Teenergizer”, an Association for Adolescents and Youth, since 2015. She has been working in the field of support and protection of the rights of vulnerable adolescents for 7 years in the region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, is the author of the report “Main barriers to adolescent HIV testing in Ukraine, Russia and Georgia.”

Yana was born with HIV. When she was 10, she learned about her HIV status. At the age of 13, she spoke openly at the International Conference on Children and HIV on behalf of adolescents living with HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In addition, as a result of an open speech on her HIV status in Moldova and advocacy in June 2013, the Ministry of Health introduced disability benefits for all HIV+ children.

Also, as a result of an open speech at an extended meeting of the Coordinating Committee for HIV Prevention in the Sverdlovsk region in Russia in December 2013 and other advocacy activities, it was decided that government agencies should pay special attention to the youth living with HIV. She spoke about HIV+ adolescents from the EECA region at the 2016 UN General Assembly HIV/AIDS Summit, and was a panelist at the 22-nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam in 2018.

During her session “Advocacy and mobilization of adolescents and youth in Ukraine” Yana will talk about current issues among adolescents and youth, as well as what are the ways to solve them at the state level. The session will begin on September 17 at 16.25.

Arseny Pavlovskiy

Master in Health Psychology, Master in Social Work. Works with adolescents and adults who use drugs, adolescents and adults who have eating disorders and other problems.

– During the session “Counseling adolescents who use drugs and who have sought help involuntarily”, which will begin on September 15 at 14.20, participants will learn strategies for working with involuntary clients.

– During the session “Where does the concern for healthy eating end and eating disorders begin?” adolescents will learn to recognize the symptoms of the onset of eating disorders. If you want to know what to do to avoid it, join the session on September 16 at 16.25.

– On September 16 at 11.50 Arseny Pavlovskiy and Olha Sushko will make presentations on “Prevention of eating disorders” and “Eating disorders: classification, therapy”.

Kateryna Novikova

Kateryna is a student of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of Psychology. For 3 years in a row, she has been organizing her own social and educational projects aimed at protecting and supporting HIV-positive adolescents throughout Ukraine and the CIS countries, as well as developing projects related to the introduction of the aspect of sex education in Ukrainian society. She has experience of working in the team of the international charity organization “Teenergizer”, where she was an online consultant for HIV-positive youth, author of psychological articles and co-organizer of events such as: “VYcherinka 2018” and “PiknyVIChok 2019”.

Kateryna’s credo “Live fully, not exist!”. So she is looking forward to meeting you!

The session “Sexual Education of Youth in Ukraine and the World” will focus on the reproductive health of young people, you can share your views on preventive measures to improve the epidemiological situation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic not only in Ukraine but also worldwide. Kateryna will also talk about the emotions and self-perceptions of adolescents living with HIV-positive status. She also compares Ukraine’s experience in counteracting the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic with the successful experience of the Scandinavian countries. And to complement the session, she will discuss the digital innovations brought by the quarantine into our daily routines, as one of the methods of prevention and reducing the risk of HIV infection.

Join on September 17 at 14.00

Daniel Nagel

CEO of Youth against AIDS, having 10 years of experience in the prevention among young people.

During the session “Youth against AIDS. Do it with love, respect and condoms” you will learn about the Youth Against AIDS organization as an example of the important contribution of the youth in the fight against HIV.

The session starts on September 16, at 16:05.

Vita Musatenko

Lawyer-consultant of the ICF “AIDS Foundation East-West” (AFEW-Ukraine). Lawyer and mediator with her own method of resolving cases.

The problem is that often teenagers know almost nothing about their rights and therefore do not understand when their rights are violated. Because of this, they do not seek help. The experience of our work proves that it is not enough just to ask “Are your rights being violated?”. This session will help you learn how every adult can help teenagers fully use and fulfill their rights. During the session, all participants will receive a simple and effective tool for identifying violations of adolescents’ rights and advice on how to respond effectively to such violations.

Join the session by Vita Musatenko and Iryna Nerubaieva “Monitoring of violations of adolescents’ rights” on September 16 at 11.00.

Anastasiia Medko

Practicing psychologist, art therapist, sand therapist, senior trainer and employee of the TraningBOX personality development center, expert on HIV/AIDS prevention in Ukraine.

During the session “Peculiarities of psychological on-line counseling” participants learn about modern methods of providing psychological and therapeutic services online. Anastasiia will talk about methods, forms and platforms for online counseling work.

Join the session on September 16 at 14.20

Halyna Sergiyenko

Program Manager of the ICF “Alliance for Public Health”. She implements innovative approaches in HIV and harm reduction sphere and created the Drugstore program.

During the presentation you will find out about the Drugstore – an innovative preventive program for youth that likes experiments – and it’s real and virtual services including on-line counseling on sexual health, safe night life and testing drugs.

The session “Harm reduction for youth that likes experiments: Drugstore” will begin on September 15 at 12.40.

Andriy Matveyev

Senior social worker of the project “Bridging the Gaps: Health and Rights for Key Populations”, coordinator of the project “Underaged, overlooked: Improving access to integrated HIV services for adolescents most at risk in Ukraine”. Field of activity: provision of services for adolescents who use drugs. Experience of working with adolescents: 6 years in a correctional colony for minors and 3 years in the Day Care Center “Compass” of the CO “Kharkiv Charitable Foundation “Blago”.

– Andriy will conduct a preventive online quest “Drugs? Not my thing!” Participants will unite in six teams. Each team will earn points during the thematic stations. During the quest, participants will learn in an exciting way about the harms of drug use, safer behavior, methods of contraception, tolerance towards people living with HIV and human rights. Andriy will prove once again that prevention can be not only useful but also interesting.

Be sure to join on September 16 at 19.10!

– Moreover, during the session “Online platforms for interactive work with adolescents” participants will learn what are the current platforms for working with adolescents, how to create interesting content for adolescents and involve them in various online activities.

The session will begin on September 17 at 12.00.

Kateryna Kovalchuk

Social Project Manager of the ICF “Alliance of Public Health”, who is responsible for implementing innovative activities in the HealthLink project: “Accelerating Ukraine’s efforts to combat the HIV epidemic” with USAID support.

Do you know how to introduce remote prevention services for people at risk? And remote assistance to professionals? What are safe boxes and what do customers like about them? What challenges can you face in telecommuting and how to overcome them? And what results can be achieved?

On September 16 at 11.00 during her session “New approaches to online prevention and support of professionals: online supervision and remote prevention “Safe boxes” Kateryna together with Maryna Varban and Larysa Valova will answer these and other questions.

Nikita Karimov

Gestalt therapist, supervisor, co-founder of the “Insight” psychological service.

What is the role of gender identity in the formation of personality? What internal and external factors influence its formation? Why do we need a gender identity? How does it arise? Why aren’t there really two people with the same gender identity? How to navigate the diversity of identities? Is it possible to live without a gender identity at all? What personal qualities are determined by gender?

These and many other questions will be answered by Nikita Karimov during the session “What do I know about my own gender identity?” on September 17 at 17.20.

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