Creator: Ukrainian Community Advisory Board (UCAB) Patients of Ukraine
Description: This video tells the story of how patient organizations overcame their situation of state funding for HIV/AIDS treatment in Ukraine. Funding has always been residual and insufficient and many HIV-positive patients all over the country were left without treatment. HIV-positive children, and children whose relatives were HIV-infected, signed postcards addressed to their state representatives - «Let me live!». 500 cards were personally collected for the President, which were hand delivered to him right after the press conference at the Children’s Center for HIV-positive children. Immediately following the press conference, the presidential order to the Prime Minister was signed to madate full financing for treatment of HIV-positive people in Ukraine.
Creator: Ukrainian Community Advisory Board (UCAB) Patients of Ukraine
Description: In Ukraine approximately 8% of citizens are infected with hepatitis B and C, tuberculosis, and HIV. Despite this fact, until the year 2013, Ukrainians did not have access to treatment of Hepatitis C because of the failed establishment of a state-sponsored program. This video was created to illustrate the result of an organized patients’ action. They asked for help and to procure medicines for patients who will inevitably die due to the absence of treatment.
Creator: Ukrainian Community Advisory Board (UCAB) Patients of Ukraine
Description: In 2013, due to the critical economic situation and national currency devaluation, the prices for drugs presented for state tenders were substantially raised by pharmaceutical companies by up to 300%. UCAB decided to appeal to pharmaceutical companies in an effort to end the sale unrealistically high priced medical products in Ukraine.
Creator: ENPUD, Alliance Ukraine
Description:806 patients of the opioid substitution therapy in Crimea were deprived of treatment after OST was prohibited by the Russian authorities in May 2014. As a consequence of this crime the patients just began to... pass away! Two of the 10 people filmed in this video are already dead. In memory of them, Igor Kouzmenko, an OST patient from Simferopol, filmed a unique video recording his friends begging for salvation. How many more victims will be claimed before this terrible mistake is finally recognized?
Creator: ENPUD, Alliance Ukraine
Description:According to UN data, 6,400 persons were killed, 16,000 wounded, and 1,300,000 had to leave their homes as a result of the war in the East of Ukraine since April 2014. Tens of thousands of people were left without treatment, including hundreds of clients of opioid substitution treatment (OST) programs. As of the beginning of June 2015, 275 clients were still receiving their substitution therapy in the warfare zone in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. Before the war, over 1,000 people received OST services there. Sites are running out of the Methadone. The stock of Buprenorphine was depleted back in February 2015. The Ukrainian Government hasn’t allowed the delivery of OST narcotic drugs to the uncontrolled territories, and the authorities of “LPR” (Luhansk People’s Republic) decided to abandon OST and close the program. All the efforts of international organizations to ensure supplies of the drugs to Donetsk failed…
Creator: ENPUD, Alliance Ukraine
Description:The International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD) condemns Russia’s denial of harm reduction interventions to people who use drugs, both in the Russian Federation, and in illegally annexed Crimea. INPUD’s video, Slow Death in Ukraine, documents some of the on-the-ground impacts of Russia’s annexation of Crimea on people who use drugs, on their health, and on their human rights. It also explores the catastrophic impacts of the ongoing war in Eastern Ukraine.
Creator: ENPUD, Alliance Ukraine
Description:Irina is a mother and former drug user that lost control of her life after being sentenced to prison on paraphernalia charges. After a few years, she was diagnosed with liver disease and other illnesses, which led to her release from prison. After finding her way back home, Irina entered an opiate substitution treatment program which allowed her to function as a normal member of society and gain back control of her family life.