The Reproductive Health Alliance Kyrgyzstan (RHAK) was registered in the Ministry of Justice on December 27, 2001.

Now there are seven branches of RHAK, one for each of the seven regions of the Kyrgyz Republic:

• Osh
• Jalal-Abad
• Talas
• Chui
• Naryn
• Batken
• Issyk-Kul

From the inception of RHAK, young people have been actively involved as members of the organization, participating in strategic planning, governance and organizational policymaking.

Youth committees are elected at each RHAK branch, as well as at the national RHAK level. A member of the Youth National Committee is elected to and serves on the RHAK National Board.   

The Chui Branch Office of 'Reproductive Health Alliance Kyrgyzstan' Public Association is one of the youngest and one of the most active RHAK Branch Offices. While the Branch Office group included only 6 young people in the beginning, it now the totals more than 90 people.

RHA Chui Branch Office members include international and national trainers who in theirs turn train dozens of trainers in the area of sexuality education.

RHAK Chui Branch Office trainers are working with various groups including:

• refugees and internal migrants
• drug addicts
• sex workers
• young people
• children from children’s homes
• homeless children

The seven RHAK branches are now collaborating on a project to develop information materials with adolescents, for adolescents, covering issues of reproductive health, drugs, alcohol and tobacco, and HIV/AIDS/sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention.

The Chui branch of RHAK has also begun a project to educate street children on HIV/AIDS/STI prevention, through training peer educators from the target group to work within the community.

In 2002, RHAK (along with other Central Asian MAs) began implementation of the project ‘Protecting Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights [SRHR] of People on the Move’. 

The project improved the SRHR of:

• refugees
• repatriates
• internally displaced persons
• migrants

through the provision of high quality, accessible sexual and reproductive health information and services.

First, a survey of migrants’ knowledge, attitudes and practices was conducted in three regions of Kyrgyzstan.

Training was offered for medical workers, leaders in the migrant community, RHAK members and volunteers on issues ranging from counselling to working with marginalized groups.

Twenty thousand information leaflets, printed in Kyrgyz and Russian, were distributed, and one new clinic was supplied and established in each of the three regions to serve the migrant communities living there.