USA Continues to Support HIV/AIDS Fight in Ukraine

Ambassador Mark Dybol gives interview. Kyiv - October 17, 2008. Ambassador Mark Dybul, Global HIV/AIDS Coordinator for the U.S.  Government former President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), visited the Kyiv City AIDS Center today, where he discussed HIV/AIDS services provided by the Center, including methadone-based medication assisted therapy for injection drug users.   The United States Government is supporting the delivery of medication assisted therapy services for male and female HIV-infected injection drug users at the Kyiv AIDS Center through its SUNRISE Project, implemented by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance.  The activity builds on the significant support provided by the Global Fund to assist the Government of Ukraine to scale up medication assisted therapy services. Ambassador Dybul commended the Government of Ukraine for the leadership it has demonstrated to date in supporting implementation of this vital program, and emphasized the importance of partnership and cooperation with the Ministry of Health, Global Fund and HIV/AIDS partners and stakeholders to strengthen Ukraine’s national AIDS response and contain HIV transmission by bringing key services to most at risk populations. Since 2001, the U.S.  Agency for International Development (USAID) has been supporting Ukraine in fighting HIV/AIDS.  Currently more than 170,000 Ukrainians who are at high risk of HIV infection in the most affected regions receive prevention services and information thanks to the «SUNRISE» Program which is supported by a budget of $10 million implemented by the “International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine”. The United States of America is the largest single country donor among more than 50 donor countries of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, supporting the implementation of two programs in Ukraine with a total budget ceiling of more than $250 millions.

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