AIDS.Center

History

In 2014, journalist Anton Krasovsky participated in launching the Moscow regional center campaign New Generation Without HIV, which urged HIV testing. Participants included TV presenters Andrey Malakhov and Oksana Pushkina, actresses Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Daria Melnikova, Polina Kutepova, Yuliya Snigir, Alisa Khazanova, actors Artur Smolyaninov and Anatoly Bely, and singer Dmitry Bikbaev. The site spid.center went online in February 2015, initially drawing attention to patients of the Moscow region AIDS Center before evolving into an independent awareness project. The public campaign Don’t be afraid, we are with you, launched in November 2015, was promoted by the family of singer Stanislav Kostyushkin. On March 1, 2016, AIDS.Center and the TV channel Dozhd launched the Do not be afraid project. The foundation was established in July 2016 by Anton Krasovsky and Elena Orlova-Morozova. In September 2016, AIDS.Center won the Snob magazine award Made in Russia – 2016 in the Social Project nomination. That same month, AIDS.Center and Dozhd collaborated on My HIV-Story, a video series where HIV-positive individuals discussed accepting their diagnosis. On December 1, 2016, the Moscow Regional AIDS Center, with AIDS.Center's support, launched the advertising campaign Do not be afraid to talk and to live. In February 2017, the fund opened an office in the ArtPlay space, used as a public venue for lectures, seminars, support groups, and events. In 2017, it hosted a photo exhibition called the Brave and a week of fast HIV testing coinciding with World AIDS Day. In December 2017, Anton Krasovsky stated in an interview with Zag that he has lived with HIV since 2011.