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The organization closely cooperates with several governmental, international and local organizations, who work in this sphere. In 2009, together with 3 other NGOs, “Real World, Real People”, “Public Information and Need of Knowledge” and “Women’s resource center” the organization formed the “Advocacy Group on AIDS”. The Advocacy Group on AIDS implements various events, campaigns, raises issues at the state level, tries to solve the issues to which people living with HIV face. The organization also closely cooperates with local mass media to cover the issues of people living with HIV in a wider scale. People living with HIV face various issues in communication with their relatives and friends. It often happens in Armenia, when no one gets to know about one’s HIV positive status. Disclosing of kid’s status or disclosing of kids’ parents status is a special problem. These and other problems are the basis of interpersonal and psychological tension, which has negative impact as on a child-parent relationship, as well as on person’s health. In order to prevent such a process, the organization conducted psychological work with people living with HIV and their kids. These regular meetings gave quite good results, which is evidenced by the parents’ satisfaction. During the meetings kids learnt to understand better their own emotions, tried to see themselves from aside to thoroughly understand others’ reaction. Parents also mentioned about positive changes both in kids’ relationship with them and in school environment. Any obstacle that a person living with HIV overcomes in his/her life is already a small victory. And it is not a victory for person living with HIV only, but for the organization’s coworkers as well. And it is not important, who helped him/her, but the important part is that a person living with HIV understands and finds his/her place again in the society, continues to live and create. That is the main achievement of the organization.
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