Our partner, Transitions Online, has posted an interview with Byubyusara Ryskulova by Anna Kirey, who runs Genderstan, a blog about gender in Central Asia.
The interview looks at Ryskulova’s work with the domestic violence crisis centre Sezim, which was founded in April 1998 and is Bishkek’s only such centre. In the last nine years […]

Not only Kazakhstan had a scandal over HIV infection recently, but Kyrgyzstan is also facing the problem of the HIV infection innocent children get. In Kyrgyzstan, two children were already infected with this dangerous virus over the last month during blood transfusion. Today about 1, 193 kyrgyzstani people live with the HIV infection and […]

Every year more than 80 million units of blood are donated, but only 38% are collected in developing countries where 82% of the global population live. Few days ago Kyrgyzstan with the rest of the world marked the World Blood Donor Day. The event took place in front of the Opera and Ballet Theatre […]