1st June, 2017, Ukraine - Today we celebrate International Children’s Day and it’s time to think of the one million children who are suffering with or are affected by TB and TB/HIV. Many children who live with parents, guardians and others who have confirmed TB ...

The International AIDS Society (IAS) is currently inviting civil society organizations and HIV prevention service providers to nominate Youth Champions for HIV prevention among key populations in Eastern Europe Eastern Europe to develop a nuanced understanding of current primary prevention practices and models that effectively address the ...

User experience analysis of e-TB Manager, a nationwide electronic TB recording and reporting system in Ukraine Abstract Ukraine has successfully implemented e-TB Manager nationwide as its mandatory national tuberculosis registry after first introducing it in 2009. Our objective was to perform an end-of-programme evaluation after formal handover ...

To end the TB epidemic, Ukraine has only one recipe – to implement quality people-centered TB care! This statement was made by Andriy Klepikov, Executive Director of the Alliance for Public Health at the press conference to mark World Tuberculosis Day. “Within its pilot projects supported ...

Living with HIV in Ukraine is fraught with stigma and discrimination. It’s even harder if you’re a woman. On International Women’s Day in early March, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) published a report stating there is an “urgent need” to increase HIV treatment ...

A regional program in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) will pilot an innovative city service model to combat HIV and TB, with a special focus on key affected populations (KAPs). The city service model was implemented in Western Europe, the U.S. and Canada as far ...

Growing up in eastern Ukraine, Svitlana Moroz said she was a typically reckless teenager who believed she’d live forever. She shared needles with friends to inject opium, had unprotected sex with a guy her own age, and five months after hooking up with him, learned she ...

Currently most effective directly-acting antiviral agent for hepatitis C (HCV) treatment has already arrived to Ukraine! Alliance for Public Health launches the third phase of HCV treatment program for key populations. This phase stipulates using a direct-acting antiviral agent, which is new for Ukraine – Harvoni ...

From the first days of annexation of Crimea and launch of the military operation in the east of Ukraine, Alliance for Public Health (hereinafter – Alliance) defined that one of its priorities was support of HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis prevention and treatment programs, as well ...

People who inject drugs (PWID) can have an excellent response to sofosbuvir-based therapy for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, Ukrainian research presented to the recent 2016 AASLD Liver Meeting shows. Overall, 93% of people had a sustained virological response 12 weeks (SVR12) after the completion of ...