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| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | HIV

Ukraine. How both sides in Ukraine’s war are losing the HIV battle - Displacement, aid delivery issues, and different strategies are all feeding a raging epidemic

Ukraine. How both sides in Ukraine’s war are losing the HIV battle - Displacement, aid delivery issues, and different strategies are all feeding a raging epidemic

SEVERODONETSK. Every month or so, health project manager Yulia sets off on an arduous 24-hour, 100-kilometre journey across eastern Ukraine’s “contact line” from Severodonetsk to the rebel-held city of Luhansk. It is the front line not only of a conflict that has claimed more than 10,000 lives since early 2014 but also of one of Europe’s worst HIV epidemics. (IRIN, 15.02.2018)

http://www.irinnews.org/feature/2018/02/15/how-both-sides-ukraine-s-war-are-losing-hiv-battle