May 15, 2022
EACS Young Investigators (YING) publish viewpoint in The Lancet
The war in Ukraine has impacted HIV care in one of Europe's most HIV-affected countries.
Through the EACS Young Investigators (YING), we as HIV medical specialists from across Europe stand united. These extremely challenging circumstances endanger the care of people living with HIV affected by the war and their HIV care providers, including some of our EACS and YING colleagues.
YING saw a clear need to help and produced, together with colleagues from Ukraine and neighboring countries, a unified framework, that defines and sets out strategies to handle challenges for emergency support for people living with HIV who are staying in Ukraine and those becoming displaced.
We established four phases of emergency HIV support in Ukraine: immediate, urgent, consolidation, and post-war phases. Through the framework we aim to reduce the inevitable effect on Ukraine’s HIV care cascade now, and when rebuilding it after the war.
As European HIV medical specialists, YING and EACS feel that we can and should ensure that no person with HIV or HIV care provider is left alone, especially under these extremely challenging circumstances.
Click here to read the full viewpoint "Unified European support framework to sustain the HIV cascade of care for people living with HIV including in displaced populations of war-struck Ukraine"