July 19-20, 2021. Employees of the State Enterprise “Center of Social Expertises named after Yuri Saenkj” took part in the training for regional coordinators within the framework of the project “Biobehavioral research among MSM 2021”

July 19-20, 2021. Employees of the State Enterprise “Center of Social Expertises named after Yuri Saenkj” took part in the training for regional coordinators within the framework of the project “Biobehavioral research among MSM 2021”, which took place in Lybid hotel conference hall in Kyiv.

The aim of the training was to familiarize regional coordinators with the general methodology and research methods. The training was focused on general algorithm of interaction between the members of the regional team and study participants from among MSM; work with the software, project documentation, entering the information obtained during the testing into database via tablets.

Participants: regional coordinators from 16 cities of Ukraine who are involved in the study implementation, Coordinators of the national level from the State Enterprise Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences “Center for Social Expertise named after Yu.Saenko “; Customer representatives State Institution “Center for Public Health of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine ”.

This meeting was held with the technical support of the Project “Supporting the HIV epidemiological surveillance system and the laboratory management / quality improvement system of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, improving the use of strategic information and developing public health capacity within the framework of U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)”, which is implemented by the State Institution “Center for Public Health of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine” funded by the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of the US President’s Emergency Initiative to Relieve HIV / AIDS (PEPFAR).