{"id":12000,"date":"2015-07-01T19:03:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T19:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/?p=12000"},"modified":"2024-04-18T10:49:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T10:49:52","slug":"ukrainians-lined-up-for-medicine-in-front-of-arseniy-yatsenyuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patients.org.ua\/en\/news\/ukrainians-lined-up-for-medicine-in-front-of-arseniy-yatsenyuk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainians lined up for medicine in front of Arseniy Yatsenyuk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nUp to 200 patients with HIV\/AIDS lined up for medicine in front of the Cabinet of Ministers. This was to show the absence of medicines for 30 thousand HIV positive Ukrainians. The patients sent an open letter to the Prime minister of Ukraine with the demand to take the problem with drugs under his personal control.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cLast month we approached the Prime minister of Ukraine with the appeal to prevent the catastrophe of no medications for 30 thousand HIV people, \u2013 <\/em>says Dmytro Sherembey, Chairman of CF \u201cPatients of Ukraine\u201d.<\/strong> \u2013 Despite the promises the government has still not solved the problem!!! Ukrainians who had to receive medicines will be left with no treatment\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Last month the activists and HIV positive people held an action<\/a> in front of the Cabinet of Ministers. They set up a symbolic cemetery. The activists demanded to solve the issue with the company \u201cVector Pharma\u201d\/ \u201cPhiolis\u201d. The company was obliged to supply patients with medicines, but did not do it. \u201cVector Pharma\u201d\/ \u201cPhiolis\u201d has received 100% prepayment from the State at the end of December of 2014. It had not delivered any medications which were paid for in advance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe warned the Minister of Health Alexander Kvitashvili about the potential catastrophe a few months before it became clear that the company will not supply patients with drugs, \u2013 <\/em>states Vitaliy Shabunin, <\/strong>Head of the Board of the Anti-Corruption Action Centre<\/strong>.<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 However MoH did not solve the problem and hence the company did not deliver medicines\u201d, \u2013 <\/em>adds Vitaliy<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the last meeting of the Government the Minister of Health Alexander Kvitashvili ignored the situation with the medicines for so many terminally ill Ukrainians who will die without treatment. The Minister reported that the problem was solved as the company \u201cVector Pharma\u201d\/ \u201cPhiolis\u201d yet supplied 8% of the necessary medicines stated in the contract.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201c<\/em>This is a total disaster, which <\/em>we didn\u2019t have<\/em> in Ukraine since 2003, when <\/em>the first <\/em>program<\/em>s of <\/em>HIV<\/em>\/<\/em>AIDS treatment <\/em>just started<\/em> \u2013 <\/em>says V<\/strong>olodymyr<\/strong> Zhovtyak, chairman of All-Ukrainian Network of People Living with HIV<\/strong>\/AIDS<\/strong>.<\/strong> \u00a0<\/em>\u2013\u00a0 The problem has not been solved, in fact, it has worsened.<\/em> Through our savings we managed to compensate <\/em>the <\/em>lack <\/em>of medi<\/em>cations<\/em> for <\/em>our <\/em>patients for 1.5\u20132 months. But since the end of July<\/em> patients who are on <\/em>government <\/em>treatment and those who are provide<\/em>d with <\/em>\u00a0treatment <\/em>by <\/em>our organization through <\/em>support<\/em> of <\/em>the Global Fund <\/em>will<\/em> remain without drugs at all, if the situation with <\/em>\u201c<\/em>Vector Pharma<\/em>\u201d<\/em> is not resolved”<\/em>, <\/em>\u2013 <\/em>adds V<\/strong>olodymy<\/strong>r Zhovtyak.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

At the end of 2015 HIV\/AIDS treatment in Ukraine should be received by 64 194 mln patients provided by budget funds and by 18\u00a0406 mln patients provided by the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. By 01\/01\/2015, 51,754 mln patients are treated for the state budget and the medicines procured by the Ministry of Health. 14,573 mln patients are provided with treatment through the support of the Global Fund to fight HIV\/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that the antiretroviral therapy treatment can provide long and complete life, ability to have healthy children for HIV positive people. A patient who receives antiretroviral therapy cannot infect other people, which is why providing patients with this treatment is the best way to combat the spread of the HIV\/AIDS epidemic. Around the world antiretroviral therapy cannot be sold in pharmacies thus people can get treatment only in public institutions. That is, in case if delivery of state-funded treatment in medical institutions and AIDS centers fails, patients with this diagnosis are doomed to death.<\/p>\n

Contact persons: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Lyudmyla Gavrysh 096\u00a0789 41 94<\/p>\n

Lesia Shutko 067\u00a0245 38 75<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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