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More feature stories on Ukraine
- Increased country ownership to ensure long term sustainability of HIV services in Ukraine
- Representatives from the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) visited Ukraine from 4-5 October to learn about its National AIDS Programme and to experience first-hand the progress made and the challenges remaining in the country’s AIDS response. This was the first visit of the UNAIDS governing body to the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region.
- Ukraine to lead the AIDS response in Eastern Europe
- A senior delegation from Ukraine led by the Vice-Prime-Minister and Minister of Health, Raisa Bogatyrova met with UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé at the UNAIDS Headquarters in Geneva on 12 September 2012. During the meeting, they discussed the existing challenges and opportunities for an effective HIV response in the country.
- People who use drugs talk about HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- The community of people who use drugs called for an urgent shift from prohibitive policies to public health and humane approaches towards people who use drugs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the International AIDS Forum held on 9-10 July, 2012 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Youth to play a key role in the AIDS response in Eastern Europe and Central Asia as EURO 2012 ends
- EURO 2012 provided an excellent opportunity to highlight the AIDS epidemic among a large audience across Europe as millions of fans, communities and nations watched the games, listened to football players and engaged in social activism.
- Elena Pinchuk AntiAIDS Foundation and UNAIDS award interactive responses to AIDS
- Elena Pinchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation announced the winners of the “Social Media and Mobile Phones for HIV Prevention” competition on 18 January 2012. The project entries by South African non-profit organization Cell-Life and by Chinese internet portal Danlan were declared winners. More than 50 teams from 19 countries took part in the competition.
- Ukraine gives AIDS the Red Card
- The ‘Give AIDS the red card’ campaign, an initiative that uses the power of football to eliminate stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV, kicked off on Thursday 27 October in Ukraine.
- Competition launched to find top social media and mobile phone projects for HIV prevention
- The Elena Pinchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation has launched a competition to find social media and mobile phone projects for HIV prevention. The competition will award up to 10,000 USD to innovative, start-up projects that show proof of concept.
- Investment in HIV prevention among key populations and scale up of HIV treatment coverage key to universal access in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Insufficient investment in programmes to prevent HIV infection among key populations at higher risk is hampering efforts to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
- Charity event in Ukraine boosts youth awareness of HIV prevention
- “A healthy future starts with you” was the slogan of Race for Life, a charity event held on 9 October in Kiev, Ukraine. Over 3000 people gathered in Kiev’s city center to support people living with HIV, raise money for children born with HIV, and express their readiness to join hands to halt the epidemic.
- UNICEF: Helping Ukraine’s most-at-risk young people
- Ukraine is the European country which bears the highest burden of HIV with just over 1.6 percent of the adult population estimated to be living with the virus. Among the most affected groups are young people who engage in high risk behaviour such as injecting drug use and sex work. Many of these young people live on the streets. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Ukraine aims to give vulnerable young people the tools to protect themselves against HIV.
- Hidden HIV epidemic amongst MSM in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Judging by the official statistics, cases of HIV infection amongst men who have sex with men (MSM) in Ukraine, as in much of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, are so rare as to seem scant cause for concern.
- UNAIDS Executive Director and Princess of Norway on AIDS advocacy mission in Ukraine
- UNAIDS Executive Director Dr Peter Piot and UNAIDS Special Representative, Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway were in the Ukrainian capital Kiev this week to call for strengthened leadership in the AIDS response in the country which has Europe’s most severe AIDS epidemic.
- Lars Kallings: UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- In the second of a series of interviews with the UN Special Envoys for HIV/AIDS, Professor Kallings shares his views on his role and the challenges facing the AIDS response in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
- Making a difference: UNAIDS in Ukraine
- In the first of web special series focusing on the work of UNAIDS staff at country level, www.unaids.org talks to UNAIDS Country Coordinator in Ukraine, Dr Ani Shakarishvli, about the response in the country, her role and her motivations.
- Positive response to AIDS in Ukraine
- Experience and evidence show that for an effective response to AIDS, it is essential to involve people living with HIV at all levels. Networks of people living with HIV are uniquely well qualified to help unify the response and maximize efforts to reach out to communities as well as influence national policy.
- Love, live, dream: women against AIDS in Armenia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine
- During a nine day tour of five countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a group of HIV advocates met with policy makers and civil society organizations to raise awareness on women and AIDS in this part of the world.
- Women's Tour to five countries of the Commonwealth Independent States - photo gallery
- Photo gallery of the tour of women against AIDS in Armenia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine. Women against AIDS tour was conceived in the midst of a growing concern that women are increasingly at risk of HIV infection in many parts of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The percentage of adults living with HIV who are women has risen from 11% in 1990 to 28% in 2006.
- Harm reduction to be scaled up in Ukraine
- Unsafe injecting drug use is the main driver of the AIDS epidemic in Ukraine. As part of efforts to address injecting drug use and its relationship with HIV, Ukraine recently held a national conference on harm reduction which attracted over 400 participants.
- One woman’s fight against AIDS in Ukraine
- As Ministers from across Europe gather in Bremen, Germany for the European AIDS Conference, one woman tells her story about how she is tackling the epidemic in the most affected country in the region, Ukraine.
- AIDS theme at Ukraine fashion week
- On the first day of Ukrainian fashion week, the art and fashion world came together to promote AIDS awareness at a gala event in Kiev. Top Ukrainian designer Alexey Zalevsiky unveiled his 2007 spring-summer collection which featured men’s and women’s formal and casual wear with a difference.