The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it will supply Ukraine with the HIV drugs it needs following Russia’s invasion in February.
In an announcement on 5 April, it committed to giving the country’s HIV patients life-saving antiretroviral drugs for the next 12 months.
A total of 209,000 packs of generic antiretroviral drug TLD have been secured by the WHO alongside Ukrainian authorities, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and other partners.
Hans Henri P. Kluge, the WHO Regional Director for Europe, said: “This war has the potential to undermine the hard-earned progress of recent years on a number of health issues, including HIV.