MACEDONIA 

 

 

The National AIDS Strategy for Macedonia can be found here.

General

  
Population (mid-2002) 2 022 547
Life Expectancy (1999-2001) 73.05

Men
Women

 70.68
75.21
Employment / Unemployment (2003) 34.5 / 37.3%
GDP per capita (2002) US$1859
Source: www.stat.gov.mk  
HIV/AIDS  
Total cumulative registered cases of HIV/AIDS (1987 - 2006) 83

HIV+
AIDS

 19
64
Distribution of HIV/AIDS  

Male
Female

 69%
31%
Modes of Transmission  
Homosexual 13%
Heterosexual 56%
Injecting drug use 13%
Mother to child 4.3%
Hemophilia 8.7%
Other (unknown) 5%
Source: Macedonian National Strategy on HIV/AIDS, 2003-2006

 

Acknowledgements

Fondation Partnerships in Health Macedonia would like to express their appreciation and thanks to all of it's collaborators in Macedonia that have provided support and assistance for the implementation of the “Western Balkans Programme to Fight HIV/AIDS”. 

 

We would like to thank the following organizations and individuals in particular:

  • Ministry of Health and the Global Fund office, especially Ms. Snezana Cicevalieva for sharing information that helped us focus our activities;

  • National AIDS Programme office, especially the National AIDS Coordinator, Dr. Vesna Velik-Stefanovska for her support on both Trust Fund and Care and Support components;

  • SIDA office, UNICEF and UNAIDS for sharing their expertise on project development in Macedonia;

  • Infectious Disease Specialists at the Infectious Disease Clinic in Skopje, especially Prof. Dr. Violeta Grunevska and Dr. Maja Vasileva-Duganova for their assistance in clinical training;

  • Center for Institutional Development (CID) for providing valuable data on specific NGO capacities and training needs, and HOPS for sharing their expertise with other NGOs working with IDUs that are funded by this programme; and

  • To all the national and international partners whose contributions has helped our project development.

 

Local non-governmental organizations (NGOs)  

A project summary for each of the NGOs can be found here.

Healthy Options Project Skopje (HOPS)
Kapan An (local 3)
1000 Skopje
Macedonia
Tel.  +389-2-3130-038
Email. hristijanj@hops.org.mk

Contact: Hristijan Jankulovski, Program Coordinator

HOPS began its operations as a project supported by The Lindesmith Center and The Open Society Institute Macedonia in 1997. It is a Skopje based not-for-profit organization with 18 part-time employees and 4 volunteers/trainees, mainly of medical staff and social workers.

Macedonian Interethnic Association (MIA)
Association for Health Promotion and Education
Kozle 88 II/13
1000 Skopje
Macedonia
Tel.  +389-2-3086-120
Email.  vesnamia@osi.net.mk 
Website:  www.miaaids.org.mk

Contact:  Keti Edrovska-Isajlovska, Project Coordinator

MIA is a non-governmental organization founded in 1996 and its primary objectives are health promotion and health education. MIA is the first organization working on the field of HIV/AIDS and STI prevention in Macedonia.

Macedonian Red Cross (MRC)
Koco Racin Boulevard, No. 13
1000 Skopje
Macedonia
Tel.  +389-2-3114-355
Email. tanevska@redcross.org.mk
Website:  www.redcross.org.mk

Contact: Dr. Sonja Tanevska, HQ Health Coordinator

MRC was founded in 1945, and has independently worked since 1992. MRC is recognized in the state legal system by the Macedonian Red Cross Law since 1994, as an organization that should help state institutions in the humanitarian field according to the Geneva conventions.

HERA – Health Education and Research Association
Bul. Dimitrija Cupovski 4-1/14
1000 Skopje
Macedonia
Tel/Fax: +389-02-3290-395
Email. hera@hera.org.mk
Website:  www.hera.org.mk

Contact: Drashko Kostovski, Project Coordinator

HERA was founded in 2000, as an Health Education and Research Association with the aim to promote sexual and reproductive health in Macedonia with special accent on prevention of HIV/AIDS. HERA’s main activities are prevention thru education, publishing and social campaigns as well as care for the PWHA, VCCT and Youth Friendly Services.