Health Minister of Ukraine Raisa Bohatyriova has reported that despite its financial and technical problems, Ukraine managed to reduce number of registered cases of HIV-infection by 1.6% in Ukraine in 2012.
“We have problems both in resources, and in technical opportunities, but in 2012 we reduced the number of registered cases of HIV-infection by 1.6%. This is a victory that will shorten the dynamics of the registration of infections,” the minister said during the working meeting with WHO Regional Director for EuropeZsuzsanna Jakab.
“We created a Ukrainian center to monitor socially dangerous diseases under a single structure, which cooperates with the Global Fund [to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria], and public organizations,” the minister said.
Bohatyriova reported that Ukraine is continuing to do everything to reverse the negative tendencies in tuberculosis disease rate, especially regarding the growth of the death rate with multi resistant forms of this disease.
Jakab, in turn, said: “Ukraine undertook serious duties to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS. There is positive progress, and I want to congratulate you on this.”
She also promised Bohatyriova that the process of taking a decision to grant the status of a WHO education center to the training center of the Donetsk tuberculosis dispensary would be accelerated.
