ART HELP Hotline

"We are pleased to have joined the helping initiatives in this difficult period of time. If we do not support each other, then who will do it? It is a real stress to stay in another country without the required treatment"

Alina Yaroslavska Communications Officer, Eurasian Women's Network on AIDS

Problem and task

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and state restrictions, more and more people living with HIV are seeking help outside their native countries in gaining access to life-saving antiretroviral therapy (ART). Failure to cross borders during blockages, overloaded health systems that are poorly adapted to meet the needs of migrants and foreigners, stigma, discrimination, and sometimes, even, criminalization of PLHIV and key populations – all these issues contribute to the risk of ART interruption. We do our best for the person seeking help to prevent treatment interruption.

Solution

A person, who needs ART, contact us and we help him/her to find the necessary medications in the country where he/she is. ‘Stuck in another country without ARV therapy? Email arthelp19@gmail.com, we will help.’

Result

Since April 21, during the three weeks of the project, 28 people have contacted us, 24 of which have already received medications, 4 inquiries are still in process. We got messages from Russia, Greece, the USA, Ukraine, Poland, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Latvia, Georgia. Anyway, we do not have such an answer ‘No, we can not help you.’

There is always another way.