On a rainy day last fall, longtime AIDS activist Olga Palamarchuk took me back to her new home in Odessa, Ukraine. To call it a home might be too generous; it was a chilly basement room in a halfway house for recovering drug users. But Olga and her teenaged daughter were happy to have a roof over...

Odessa in Ukraine has become the latest city to sign the Paris Declaration to end the AIDS epidemic in cities. Since the end of 2014, more than 200 cities around the world have signed the Paris Declaration and are addressing the significant disparities in access to basic services, social justice...

The United States will provide $37.5 million to Ukraine in 2017 as part of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

On 1 December 2016, a campaign dedicated to the World AIDS Day was conducted in the community of internally displaced people in Sviatohirsk (Donetsk oblast) within cooperation of two international charitable foundations – Alliance for Public Health and Health Right International in Ukraine...

On 1 December 2016, Alliance for Public Health together with its partners implementing the project “Harm Reduction for Adolescents Who Use Drugs in Ukraine” held a youth-oriented awareness-raising campaign dedicated to the World AIDS Day “MUSIC FEST – TAKE A TEST”...

New vaccine trial in South Africa builds on previous RV144 study to bring in more effective prevention of infection.

The Government of Ukraine has announced that in 2017 it will fully finance from its budget the national opioid substitution therapy programme for people who use drugs, a key population in Ukraine that is at higher risk of HIV infection. Approximately US$ 500 000 will be allocated to enable 8000...

On the 17th floor of a disused building in Kiev, Ukraine, is a secret spot where people from across the capital city congregate with one purpose: to shoot up.

Within the project aimed at protection of the right of children to healthy development, Alliance and its local partners run social and preventive Quests for 400 adolescent project clients in Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv, Poltava, and Sloviansk to mark the International Children’s Day. The winning...

The Anticorruption Action Center, Ukraine’s most prominent anti-graft NGO, has found that prices for H.I.V. drugs were inflated by more than 27 percent in 2013 because of middlemen scamming the health ministry. In an investigation of the food-processing company Archer Daniels Midland, the...

Ahead of a Fast-Track cities event to take place in June at the 2016 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, the Mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, has committed the city to the UNAIDS Fast-Track approach to end the AIDS epidemic.

Today severely ill patients gathered in front of the Cabinet of Ministers building with the demand to reallocate funds in the Budget 2016 for treatment of seriously ill Ukrainians. Near the walls of the Government’s building they arranged an improvised pile of cards with names of people who...