Alliance for Public Health became the first in Ukraine to offer access to Hepatitis C treatment to people living with HIV in the health facilities of the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine
Within the Global Fund-supported program, Alliance provides convicted and detained persons who have HIV and Hepatitis C co-infection with modern and effective Hepatitis C treatment.
The diagnostic interventions aimed at detection of Hepatitis C include rapid tests with further confirmation of the diagnosis using PCR assays.
The State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine received 1,000 rapid tests for primary Hepatitis C diagnostics from Alliance. Based on the testing results, 70% of the persons living with HIV tested for Hepatitis C had positive results.
In addition, 140 convicts who got positive rapid test results were able to receive further diagnostics, i.e. a number of the required laboratory assays in a private medical laboratory and confirmed their Hepatitis C diagnoses.
As a result, 50 HIV+ patients with confirmed Hepatitis C diagnoses started treatment with highly effective Harvoni medications in the health facilities of the State Criminal Executive Service of Ukraine.