Ukraine
Ukraine has one of the most severe HIV/AIDS epidemics in Europe, contributing nearly 21 percent of the newly reported HIV diagnoses in 2006 in the Europe and Eurasia (E&E) region. Ukraine’s first case of HIV/AIDS was detected in 1987, and the epidemic appeared to be confined to a small population of foreign students until the mid-1990s, when a sudden and explosive epidemic emerged among injecting drug users (IDUs) in the southern and eastern regions of the country. The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS estimated that 440,000 people were living with HIV/AIDS at the end of 2007, representing 1.6 percent of the population. The Ukraine National Council on TB and HIV/AIDS estimated adult prevalence of HIV had decreased to 1.28 percent by 2009. While prevalence appears to have decreased due to overall population growth, the number of new cases continues to increase.
Since 2002, USAID/Ukraine has worked with the Government of Ukraine, other donors, multilateral and international agencies, nongovernmental organizations and the private sector to prevent transmission of HIV and contain the spread of HIV among most at risk populations (MARPs). The current U.S. Government programs support Government of Ukraine efforts to strengthen the HIV/AIDS policy and legislative environment; provide prevention and care information and services for MARPs, reaching IDUs (including access to methadone-based assisted treatment), commercial sex workers, and men who have sex with men; reduce the stigma and discrimination associated with HIV/AIDS; and build governmental and nongovernmental capacity to plan, implement, manage, and monitor Ukraine’s National AIDS Program.
View the full USAID HIV/AIDS Health Profile for Ukraine - October 2010 [PDF,
230KB].
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