In 2014 International Aid Network, in partnership with the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) and 10 other rehabilitation centres in different regions, started to implement project “Global Holistic Approach to the Fight against Impunity for Torture” (DFI). Overall aim of the project is to contribute to the fight against impunity by using data gathered from survivors of torture …

Short project description: The project is implemented in partnership with Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, which is the project lead. The project combines professional training in models of good practice, independent expertise and advocacy that synergically lead towards a radical reform of Serbia’s mental healthcare system and strengthen CSO capacity to gain public support. In cooperation with the …

Short project description: Due to the lack of adequate community-based services and the lack of appropriate healthcare and social services in the community, lots of people with mental diseases in AP Vojvodina are forced to seek support in other bodies for social assistance, which are far from their towns. Moreover the situation of the existing institutions is insufficient and there …

The goal of education was to increase the availability and quality of services in health care, by improving general and specific knowledge of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases among health care workers, primarily on the territory of the Sandzak region and to train young activists from at least three different NGOs on HIV and other STD infections, the risk …

Short project description: Overall project objective is to contribute to eradication of torture and impunity in Serbian society by preventing torture in places of detention. Specific objective is to improve the efficiency of monitoring, documentation and reporting of torture in places of detention by the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM). Expected results: Capacity building and stronger involvement of Serbian civil society …

The project contributes to eradicating torture and impunity in Serbia and the Balkan region through provision of comprehensive rehabilitation for victims and building capacities of stakeholders to prevent and report on torture (Ombudsman office, associations of people from marginalized groups) as well as campaigning against torture and culture of violence. Results: First year of the project implementation was marked with …

Project is based on the yearlong work of IAN and the identified needs of people who have been using the services of IAN centre for rehabilitation of Torture Victims (CRTV) since 2001. The CRTV provides free psychological, psychiatric, medical and legal assistance as well as the education to all victims of torture, among whom the most numerous are victims of …

The project goal was to create a functional regional network of accessible community mental health and social care services in the community of southern Serbia, as a model for the rest of the country, which supports the integration of people with mental illness into society and increases the involvement of users of mental health services and their relatives in the …

“HIV/AIDS and mental health in South-Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia” is the project carried out in cooperation with GIP Global Initiative in Psychiatry (2007-2010). The project aimed at raising awareness and knowledge among professional and general public on frequently neglected connection between mental health and HIV. Our section became a part of the Expert centres network in this part …

Within the project Comprehensive support program for people affected by HIV (2007-2009) supported by CAFOD, IAN supported development of eight PLHIV associations (associations of people living with HIV), that are active in Serbia (Aid +, ŽENA+, following Q-club , ALEXO, Stav plus , UPSZ, Sunce i SPAIDS). The support consisted of delivering great number of training programs specifically designed according …

G. Opačić, V. Jović, B. Radović, G. Knežević
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IAN, Beograd, 2006.