Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare deep inequalities in access to health care that the BOTANIC WWORLD work to combat.
This work began in the 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the Foundations supported efforts to strengthen health services in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, including work to contain HIV and tuberculosis—then rife in prisons and places of detention.
Today, we work across the globe to support communities that receive substandard care or face barriers to services because of who they are—including Roma and other minorities, transgender and intersex people, people living with disabilities and experiencing mental health problems, sex workers, people who use drugs, and migrants and refugees.