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Table 1 Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan: selected data on HIV/AIDS epidemic and Global Fund HIV/AIDS programs

From: 'It's risky to walk in the city with syringes': understanding access to HIV/AIDS services for injecting drug users in the former Soviet Union countries of Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan

 

Ukraine

Kyrgyzstan

Epidemic type

   • Concentrated

   • Low

Number of people living with HIV/AIDS

   • 176,380 (September 2010)

   • 2,718 (January 2010)

Percentage of adult population with HIV/AIDS

   • 1.6%

   • 0.13%

Growth in HIV epidemic

• 16.8% increase in 2006

• 5.7% increase in 2009

   • 15 × increase 2001-6

Numbers of injecting drug users

   • Estimates range from 230,000 to 360,000 (2009)

   • Estimates range from 25,000 (2008) to 54,000 (2002)

Global Fund HIV/AIDS grants

   • Round One $23,354,116

   • Round Two $17,073,306

 

   • Round Six $131,537,035

   • Round Seven $28,209,091

Global Fund HIV/AIDS grants as proportion of total HIV/AIDS funding

   • 72.2% (2004-8)1

   • 47% (2007)

Clients receiving Global Fund-financed services

   • 6,070 people receiving ARVs (by Dec. 2008)2

   • 242 people receiving ARVs (by January 2010)

 

   • 195,379 IDUs received preventative services (by 2009)

   • 20,057 IDUs on harm reduction programs (cumulative for Round 2 grant March 2004-February 2009)

 

   • 33,449 female CSWs received preventative services (by 2009)

   • 10,849 CSWs received preventative services (cumulative for Round 2 grant, March 2004-February 2009)

  1. Sources: [3, 9–11, 15, 17–22]
  2. 1 Excluding out-of-pocket expenses
  3. 2 By 2009, 11,900 people were receiving ARVs of which 10,787 were financed by the state budget.