Events and announcements

On the eve of the World AIDS Day, on November 30th researchers met in Kyiv with heads of Ukrainian city and region Departments of Health to discuss urgent public health issues and possible routs of scaling up opioid agonist therapy (OAT) in Ukraine.

In the framework of “Integrating Addiction Treatment and HIV services into Primary Care Clinics in Ukraine” Project the UIPHP experts in cooperation with colleagues from the Yale Medical School delivered a training specially tailored for medical doctors and NGO staff based in the Mykolaiv City.

Results dissemination meeting obtained at the end of a four-year long HPTN 074 study was organised on the 18th of October in Kyiv; the study was carried out among injecting drug users on three locations, namely Ukraine, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

UIPHP Scientific Director Konstantin Dumchev presented the estimates of the number of people living with HIV/HCV coinfection who inject drugs in Ukraine at the 7th International Symposium on Hepatitis Care in Substance Users in Portugal.

The Lancet has published an article co-authored by UIPHP researchers, which presents key results from HPTN 074 - controlled trial conducted among people who inject drugs in Ukraine, Indonesia and Vietnam.

UIPHP research team presented the results of our recent studies on various aspects of the HIV epidemic in Ukraine at the 22nd International AIDS Conference, which was held July 23–27, 2018, in Amsterdam.

UIPHP research team has joined the 2018 NIDA International Forum, which was held June 8–11, 2018, in San Diego, California, USA.

On May 30, the IAS 2017 Post-Conference Workshop on HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) organized by The International AIDS Society (IAS) took place in Kyiv.

At the Seventy-first World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 22 Dr.

The Third Annual BTRP Ukraine Regional One Health Research Symposium is held in Kyiv this week.