Today the patients with AIDS held an action \u201cCemetery instead of drugs\u201d and set up a symbolic cemetery on the slope in front of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, fencing off the place for graves. In this way they wanted to attract the attention of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk to the fact that in 3 weeks 20\u00a0000 HIV-positive people will be left without medicines.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe appeal to the Prime-Minister of Ukraine and the Government to prevent the catastrophe, as already in 3 weeks 30\u00a0000 HIV-positive patients with be left without treatment. This year alone the Network has saved the lives of 66\u00a0000 patients by procuring medicines for the first quarter of 2015,<\/em> \u2013 says Volodymyr Zhovtyak, <\/strong>Head of the All-Ukrainian Network of PLWH<\/strong>.<\/strong> \u2013 But today we are again in a situation that can be solved only by the political will of the state leadership and by speeding up the process of drug procurement\u201d, <\/em>\u2013 he added.<\/p>\n According to the information of Network of PLWH on the 15th<\/sup> of March patients with HIV will run out of the medications. By the end of June this fate awaits all who are on the treatment programs that include drugs such as Lamivudine, Zidovudine \/ Lamivudine, Efavirenz. <\/strong>There are almost 30 thousand such patients in Ukraine.<\/p>\n The reason for this acute shortage of medicines is a decision that has been \u00a0taken last year. In 2014 the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has introduced \u00a0the “lobbying norm” to the Resolution #117, which allowed suppliers of medicines to get 100% prepayment and postpon of delivery for 6 months.<\/p>\n Now drugs, which the patients should have received within the state program by the end of 2014, can be delivered only in June of 2015. According to the patients, unscrupulous companies are not going to supply medications despite having received money in advance.<\/p>\n \u00abWe have reliable information that all the medicines that should have <\/em>been delivered by<\/em> company \u00abVector Pharma\u00bb <\/em>won\u2019t<\/em> be delivered to Ukraine<\/em>. We will run out of drugs before the expected date of delivery which is June 1oth,<\/em> \u2013 says Dm<\/strong>y<\/strong>tr<\/strong>o<\/strong> Sherembey, Chairman of the Board <\/strong>C<\/strong>F \u00abPatients <\/strong>of<\/strong> Ukraine\u00bb.<\/strong> \u2013 The situation should be solved urgently<\/em>, while there is time to fix it and <\/em>deliver<\/em> medication<\/em>s<\/em> to<\/em> hospital<\/em>s<\/em> before the deadline. Last year, the Cabinet<\/em> of Ministers<\/em> made a terrible mistake which <\/em>now costs lives<\/em>. It <\/em>must<\/em> be <\/em>solved<\/em> immediately\u00bb, <\/em>\u2013 he adds.<\/p>\n It should be noted that instead of supplying drugs, company \u00abVector Pharma\u00bb has filed a suit against the Ministry of Health. The owners of the company received 52 million 600 000 hryvnias prepayment in December 2014 and now demand from government to compensate the increase of foreign currency. \u00ab<\/em>It\u2019s nonsense<\/em>, <\/em>considering that the <\/em>\u00a0company <\/em>received <\/em>100% <\/em>p<\/em>repayment <\/em>and could have pay for the p<\/em>roduction of <\/em>medications<\/em> already<\/em> six month ago, or <\/em>to convert this money<\/em> in<\/em>to<\/em> the currency<\/em>,<\/em> \u2013 says Vital<\/strong>i<\/strong>y Shabunin, <\/strong>C<\/strong>hairman of the Board of \u00ab<\/strong>Anticorruption Action Center<\/strong>\u00bb<\/strong>.<\/strong> \u2013 Th<\/em>e<\/em> steps that the <\/em>company <\/em>made is nothing else than marking time in order to not supply medications<\/em>\u00bb<\/em>,<\/em> \u2013 <\/em>he added<\/em>.<\/p>\n While the Ministry of Health will be dealing with courts, patients with HIV\/AIDS won\u2019t receive their treatment. That is why they have come to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine with the demand to help to solve the situation at the highest political level and deliver the medications until the 10th<\/sup> of June.\u00a0 13 regions of Ukraine has also joined the action, including: Odessa, Rivne, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kirovograd, Kherson (Skadovsk), Kramatorsk, Mariupol, Zaporizhia, Severodonetsk, Chernigiv, Chernivtsi, Lviv.<\/p>\n Contact persons<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n Anna Konstantinova\u00a0067 932 05 16,<\/p>\n Lesya Shutko 067 245 38 75,<\/p>\n Marina Yenzhyyevska 067 580 10 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today the patients with AIDS held an action \u201cCemetery instead of drugs\u201d and set up a symbolic cemetery on the slope in front of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, fencing off the place for graves. 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