Events and announcements

Kostyantyn Dumchev of UIPHP presented the results of the retrospective clinical study of people living with HIV in Ukraine at the 26th Harm Reduction International Conference in Porto.

An annual report on the activities of the Charitable Organization "Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy" (UIPHP), 2018, is published on our site.

A report released by UNAIDS on March 13, 2019, shows that despite a decline in new HIV infections globally, HIV incidence is not declining among people who inject drugs.

The 26th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2019) has just concluded in Seattle, Washington, United States.

The International AIDS Society has released a report on the key outcomes of the 9th IAS Conference on HIV Science, which took place in Paris in July 2017.

In 2018 almost 80 doctors and nurses from 15 primary healthcare clinics in 7 Ukrainian cities participated in educational online sessions organized in the framework of “Integrating Addiction Treatment and HIV-services into Primary Healthcare Clinics in Ukraine” Project.

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.