The Way Home

Odessites during the round table summed up the Global Ukrainian action “Don’t kick away!”, dedicated to the International AIDS day. The discussion was held at Odessa Charity Fund “The Way Home”.

“We have set three goals for ourselves – to secure HIV-positive people’s access to treatment, to exhort healthy people not to kick diseased ones away, and also to protect themselves and their families from this terrible disease” – Natalia Kitsenko, the director of HIV prevention department at OCF “The Way Home, says.

Besides, representatives of large companies, owning petrol stations in Odessa, also participated in the discussion of HIV and AIDS problem. Думская.net informed that informational leaflets and condoms were handed out in Odessa petrol stations during this action.

According to the statistics data, there are 365 thousand HIV-infected people living in Ukraine and only 181 thousand are formally registered.

There are 40 thousand of HIV-infected people living in Odessa and only 23 thousand are registers, at the same time the decrease of level of this infection is observed.

In 2004 among female sex-industry workers there were about 31% of HIV-infected ones, in 2011 this index dropped to 20%.

Among drug users in 2000 – there were 64% of infected ones, and in 2011 – 28,8%.

Such tendency proves that work carried out by non-governmental organizations is efficient; such organizations take care of HIV-positive people’s problems, as well as problems of HIV vulnerable groups and they also carry out popularization of safe sex.

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