In the context of the COVID epidemic, the allocation of people living with HIV into a separate group is of high social importance
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Providing Assistance to Families in Need During the COVID-19 Pandemic
During self-isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many families, who raise children with HIV found themselves in difficult life situations. Especially families with guardianship of the child by the grandmother, single mothers and large families.
Continue readingProviding basic necessities for women living with HIV and raising infants
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Russia has developed a number of restrictive measures on access to treatment and prevention of vertical transmission of HIV infection for women living with HIV and raising infants
Continue readingTimely and effective support for partner organizations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
As part of the Russian HIV/AIDS Technical Assistance Program, assistance was provided to countries in the EECA region in COVID-19 coronavirus counteraction by the ministries of health, medical and public organizations of four countries: Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Continue readingCouriers in cars rush to the rescue
The coronavirus pandemic has led to the fact that many people who need regular visits to health visits, were simply locked up, on self-isolation. This directly affects the needs of people living with HIV, and disruptions in antiretroviral therapy schedules jeopardize their health and even life.
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During the aggravation of the situation with COVID-19 and the regime of self-isolation in the Chelyabinsk region, the issue of providing vital medicines to HIV patients became acute. The health and life of a person living with HIV directly depends on the daily use of ART, as well as a lean attitude to their health. The necessary medicines can only be obtained at a medical facility.
Continue readingART delivery in Yekaterinburg
Like all citizens, during the COVID-19 pandemic, people living with HIV are recommended a self-isolation regime. More than 50,000 PLHIV and more than 30,000 PLHIV who receive ART are constantly living in Yekaterinburg. The main tasks faced by medical and public organizations in relation to the provision of HIV services: how to reduce risks for program participants, how to rebuild existing services, how to receive ARVT in a timely manner, and what else needs to be supported in the new realities.
Continue reading#Remembrance wall – it is not necessary for the dead, it is for the living
From the beginning of the epidemic, it was clear that the first who came across it were doctors, infectious disease doctors. Those doctors who have always been our friends and our colleagues. These were the doctors, who treated our HIV-positive people. And it became clear that the country is not ready for an epidemic. Then at the end of March, most did not understand the scale of the disaster.
Continue readingSomehow it will not just go away by itself or small steps towards it
The most important problems faced by people living with HIV, especially those who decided to make money in the regime of so-called ‘days off’ in Russia, were the threat of medication interruptions and lack of means of existence.
Continue readingPrevention among sex workers will be!
The introduction of restrictive measures, reducing the flow of clients, closing jobs, lack of work – all of this has greatly affected the lives of sex workers.
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