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Olga Gvozdetska, the acting deputy general director at the Ukrainian Ministry of Healths Public Health Center, remembers dialing into a meeting with donors, community organizations, and government agencies from a gas station as she joined the 2 million-strong exodus from Kyiv during the first week of the full-scale war...
Donors, including the US global AIDS program Pepfar, the World Health Organization, and international health finance body the Global Fund, moved quickly, procuring enough supplies to provide ART to every person living with HIV in Ukraine for a year..
Andriy Klepikov, the executive director of the Alliance for Public Health, a nonprofit organization that focuses on HIV and tuberculosis, says his teams deployed 37 mobile clinics from Lviv in the west to Kharkiv in the northeast, providing more than 109,000 consultations, testing more than 90,000 people for the communicable diseases, delivering close to 2,000 metric tons of humanitarian aid and medical gear to 200 health care facilities, and connecting with small villages that would otherwise have been abandoned to their fate...
In Kryvyi Rih, Lee, 47, says he created his makeshift sanctuary after realizing early in the war that at-risk populations, such as drug users, HIV-positive people, sex workers, LGBTQ+ people, and the recently incarcerated were more likely to be turned away from other spaces offering refuge..
After finding people a place to stay, Lee drives those requiring medical care to the Kryvyi Rih AIDS Center, one of the oldest clinics providing HIV care in Ukraine..
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