The full-scale invasion of russia in February 2022 had a profound impact on various aspects of life in Ukraine, including healthcare and the fight against HIV and tuberculosis. The Global Fund conducted an assessment of the situation in Ukraine from the moment of the full-scale invasion until the beginning of 2023.
The exploration of a new intervention in linkage HIV-infected patients in treatment, known as MARTAS, which was implemented by our Institute in Ukraine, has been recognized as having the lowest level of risk of bias. This conclusion comes from a recently published systematic review and meta-analysis of linkage to HIV care interventions in the United States, Canada, and Ukraine over an eleven-year period.
This month, UNAIDS has released the “HIV Response Sustainability Primer” which proposes a new approach to ensure the sustainability of the HIV response. This holistic approach includes programmatic, political, policy-related and financial aspects of the HIV response.
The biennial HepHIV Сonference took place 13-15 November 2023 in Madrid, Spain. The main theme of the HepHIV-2023 focused on progress and implementation of integrated testing, new technologies and ensuring equity in the delivery of HIV, viral hepatitis and STI services.
We bring to your attention current training opportunities in the USA in 2024/2025 for public health scientists, researchers, academic public health faculty, and government public health officials in Ukraine.
The Fogarty International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has published an article dedicated to cooperation with the Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy, particularly in the context of war in Ukraine.
On September 22, 2023, in New York, during the second United Nations high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis, world leaders, civil society representatives and other stakeholders approved a declaration to advance efforts to end tuberculosis (TB) by 2030.