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Project Ukraine: HIV Awareness Organization Alliance for Public Health Location Kyiv, Ukraine

Our team is focusing on monitoring, evaluation, surveillance and strategic information in the field of HIV/AIDS. At the same time we’re exploring a feasibility of implementation of different approaches in HIV prevention, treatment and care which are not currently being used in the country. Ukraine is a country

Organization Mentor: Kornilova Marina Tetiana Salyuk CGPH Faculty Mentors Julie Avina

where access to antiretroviral treatment is still far from being universal although the situation is improving over time. So we’re using all possible opportunities and evidences to advocate for scaling up access to HIV treatment. And currently we see the window of opportunities in implementation science and operational researches showing that such interventions as PrEP and test& treat are effective and have a good potential within the local context. Within this direction we plan a number of community based control trials to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of HIV test and treat approach among MSM and serodiscordant couples as well as effectiveness of PrEP in the same groups. Our focus is determined by the evidence that the great proportion of new HIV cases in Ukraine are occurring in the MSM population and among sexual partners of people who inject drugs.

Students will be responsible for completing a review of the existing strategies to increase awareness and enrollment of MSM population into the HIV testing and treatment services as well as tools that would help to retain in treatment. Special focus should be placed on relatively new approaches such as social networks, media, approaches used in social marketing etc.