„Condom with a Cause” with a Video to Support Health
Sofia, April 11, 2018
The campaign for responsible sexual behavior of the Bulgarian Family Planning and Sexual Health Association (BFPA) and Sexwell condoms “Condom with a Cause” (in BG) continues fundraising for buying quick tests, testing and counseling people in need. The launch of a video aiming to attract and engage more people to support the cause took place on April 11, 2018. The only way to prevent ourselves from sexual transmitted infections and to save our reproductive system is to have responsible sexual behavior.
BFPA in the training team at the NCCTHB Volunteer Academy 2018
Arbanasi, March 26-28, 2018
From March 26 to 28 in the village of Arbanasi, Veliko Turnovo region, took place the annual Volunteer Academy organized by the National Commission for Combattling Trafficking in Human Beings together with the Hanns Seidel Foundation and the Local Commission for Combattling Trafficking in Human Beings – Veliko Turnovo. This year special focus in the academy agenda is given to the prevention of trafficking for labor exploitation. The training brought together 52 young volunteers that work with the Local Commissions in Burgas, Blagoevgrad, Varna, Veliko Turnovo, Montana, Pazardjik, Pleven, Plovdiv and Sliven – some have not received training yet, some have been trained and themselves have implemented peer-to-peer trainings, and some are youngsters from vulnerable communities who were part of the focus groups formed during the labor trafficking prevention campaign.
Development Cooperation in Times of Changing Paradigms
Sofia, March 21-22, 2018
The Regional Conference "Development Cooperation in Times of Changing Paradigms" organized by the Bulgarian Platform for International Development (BPID) took place on 21-22 March 2018 in Sofia, Bulgaria and brought together over 100 representatives of CSOs, institutions, UN agencies and business from the Western Balkans and the Black sea region. The conference organizers were also hosting the meeting of Hub2 of CONCORD – the European network of National Platforms and networks active in the field of development policies. BFPA is one of the most active organizations of the Platform, a founding member and a moderator of the health group that attracted to the Conference its valuable partners frоm the Western Balkans.
BFPA starts a campaign with coffee fortune slips in the month of March. The campaign provokes people to think on the relevance every woman and girl to have equal access to family planning information and services.
• Ensure stable future for yourself, in order your children to have bright future; • You can make the choice to be happy; • Health, happiness, knowledge, comfort…; • Children are not expected to give birth to children! Let’s support the most vulnerable; • Early pregnancy is risky for the health, the life and the professional realization. Everyone must have the right to make a choice; • We can’t change the whole world at once, but we can start with something small, changing the life of thousands; • All children have potential; let’s give them the chance to develop it.
The next and first for this year gathering of the members of the Learning Action Partnership (LAP) took place at February 20th. The working meeting was also the first after the last years’ conference with international participation on topic „The Prevention of Sexual Violence and Sexual Exploitation of Children is Possible”. Members of National Network for Children, Bulgarian Family Planning and Sexual Health Association, Know How Center for Alternative Care of Children of NBU, Applied Research and Communication Foundation, UNICEF, Tulip Foundation, National Network of Health Mediators, Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, Ministry of Health, Medicins du Monde, PULSE Foundation, Re-Act Association OAK Foundation, Institute for Social Activities and Practices participated.
The Bulgarian Association for Family Planning and Sexual Health (BFPA) presented the results of a nationally representative survey conducted by KANTAR. The study took place in August 2022, among a sample of 836 people from the adult population and analyzed the measures that would positively affect the birth rate.
On November 11, 2022, the final conference of the ARIE project was held in Sofia. The project is supported by the Erasmus+ Sport program, led by the long-standing Italian partner of BFPA ANLAIDS – Lombardia. The rest of the participating organizations are from Bulgaria, Greece, Lithuania, Romania and Slovenia. The activities are aimed at people living with HIV (PLHIV), the goal of the project is to develop and introduce a fitness program and an activity protocol for people living with HIV. In Bulgaria the project was coordinated by Boyan Mladenov from the BFPA team. Among the participants of the conference were health specialists, professors from medical universities, NGO partners, representatives of the target group. From the Bulgarian side the most outstanding was the presentation of Prof. Radka Argirova “HIV,Covid and Monkeypox - what more we have to know” The project aims to promote physical activity in the form of personalized guidelines among people between the ages of 18 and 50 who are living with HIV and who are on treatment, offering an innovative fitness protocol to engage them in moderate physical activity. This is the first project in Europe specifically targeting people living with HIV and fitness to promote a healthy lifestyle and add fitness protocols to HIV therapy.
In the last months of 2022 the partners of the YVYC project, together with experts and young people, developed recommendations for regional policy recommendations for improvement of health and social systems and SRHR services for young people after the Covid 19 pandemic. The recommendations are targeting decision-makers at international and national institutions. They were presented in the European Parliament on October 26, 2022 by young advocates and experts, with the support of MEP Fred Matic. Three BFPA representatives - Victoria Nikolova, Venelin Stoychev and Pavlina Filipova participated in the EP meeting.
Arbanasi, March 26-28, 2018
Sofia, March 21-22, 2018
Throughout the country, March 8, 2018
February 20 2018, Sofia
