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