UKRAINE. Ukraine Expands Opioid Substitution Therapy to Reduce HIV
UKRAINE. Ukraine Expands Opioid Substitution Therapy to Reduce HIV
The Ukrainian government is increasing the scope of the country’s state-funded opioid substitution therapy (OST) programme – a harm reduction tool which reduces the risk of overdose and disease transmission.
Ukraine has provided free OST to around 8,000 people since the beginning of 2017, and now authorities have made the treatment accessible for even more people. As of this year, Ukraine is now fully funding OST for over 10,000 patients at 178 healthcare facilities around the country – “a 100 fold increase in the number of OST patients in Ukraine since 2005”, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). (TALKING DRUGS, UK, 06.02.2018)
https://www.talkingdrugs.org/opioid-substitution-therapy-ukraine-2018