A new report of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world as of 2024 has been published.
The DrugUsersNews channel has published a new documentary film with the participation of UIPHP experts and many of our partners and colleagues on the implementation and expansion of the OAT program in Ukraine.
Researchers of the Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy and our partners from Yale University presented the results of two projects related to the implementation of OAT programs in Ukraine.
On July 22, at the 25th International AIDS Conference – AIDS 2024, which takes place from 22 to 26 July, 2024 in Munich, Germany, the session "Person-centred and integrated healthcare and harm reduction services for people living with and affected by HIV, hepatitis C and tuberculosis in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA)" was held. The Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy was one of the organizers and an active participant of the session.
On June 19, 2024, we held the final ECHO session of the seven-year research project "Integrating Addiction Treatment and HIV Services into Primary Care Clinics in Ukraine", which aimed to study the effectiveness of the integrated model of health care services in primary care clinics and interventions to improve the quality of health care services through the training of physicians.
The expert evidence indicated that co-administering MDR-TB and HCV treatments, as compared to delaying HCV treatment while treating MDR-TB alone, may yield several benefits.
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.