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Antiretroviral therapy will be implemented smoothly in the regions of Ukraine
Last reviewed: 02.07.2025
Antiretroviral drugs have been delivered to all regions of Ukraine to ensure uninterrupted treatment of HIV-infected patients and patients diagnosed with AIDS, which should be enough until December 2014. If we follow the approximate plan for treating patients, antiretroviral drugs can be provided to more than 68 thousand people infected with HIV or AIDS, of which 53,024 people are already receiving medications, and 15,249 thousand HIV-infected people will only begin treatment.
As it became known, at the beginning of May 2014, the regions of Ukraine were 93% provided with antiretroviral drugs from the total amount of purchases at the expense of state funds. For May - June 2014, it is planned to supply more drugs that were purchased under the grant program of the Global Fund to Fight Infectious Diseases (malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS).
Specifically, in order to avoid interruptions in the treatment of patients, certain schemes for the redistribution of medications between regions were provided, as well as the replacement of treatment with analogous drugs, which corresponds to the provisions of the “Clinical Protocol for Antiretroviral Therapy of HIV Infection”, which was approved in 2010 by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
As the analysis, which was conducted using Electronic Methods of Monitoring the Movement and Use of Antiretroviral Drugs, showed, there are enough drug residues in the regions to ensure that therapy for patients in 2014 was carried out without interruption.
The Ukrainian Social Diseases Service notes that in order to reduce the rate of spread of the disease and mortality from HIV infection, it is necessary to expand access to ART. Today, Ukraine has all the opportunities to effectively use public procurement mechanisms, including international experience.
The most important stage in providing patients with antiretroviral drugs is negotiations with pharmaceutical companies, since the effectiveness of overcoming the problems of the epidemic for the country depends on the management of companies’ understanding of the problems of HIV and AIDS for Ukraine, as well as the consequences that may arise as a result of increasing the price of antiretroviral drugs.
The problem of HIV and AIDS is extremely urgent for Ukraine today.
The HIV infection officially reached the countries of the former USSR in 1987, until 1995 only a few cases of HIV infection were recorded in Ukraine, and at that time Ukraine was considered a country with a low risk of morbidity from the WHO point of view. Today, Ukraine has reached the first positions among European and Asian countries in terms of the rate of infection spread.
During the period of independence, more than 20 thousand people aged 25 to 50 years died from AIDS. According to statistics, approximately 60 people are infected in Ukraine every day, and 8 Ukrainian citizens die.
The most common ways of contracting HIV are drug addiction, prostitution, homosexuality, and thousands of children are born to HIV-positive mothers every year.
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