{"id":42694,"date":"2022-08-03T07:54:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T07:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=42694"},"modified":"2022-09-12T07:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T07:00:41","slug":"sending-unused-hiv-meds-to-ukraine-emergency-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/42694","title":{"rendered":"Sending unused meds to Ukraine: emergency appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If you are HIV positive and new help for HIV care after leaving Ukraine,<\/strong> please use the &#8216;<strong>contact us&#8217;<\/strong> section on this website. Whatever country you are now in, someone will contact you back with information.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/awarehiv.com\/en\/Dare-to-Share-Care\/Ukraine\">https:\/\/awarehiv.com\/en\/Dare-to-Share-Care\/Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new EU-funded website includes information about health care for people who have left Ukraine. All pages are in Ukranian and English.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatment4ukraine.com\/\">https:\/\/www.treatment4ukraine.<wbr \/>com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base<\/strong><\/p>\n<div  class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/donated-meds.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42691\" class=\"wp-image-42691 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/donated-meds-177x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/donated-meds-177x300.png 177w, https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/donated-meds-605x1024.png 605w, https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/donated-meds-768x1299.png 768w, https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/donated-meds-908x1536.png 908w, https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/donated-meds.png 961w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">100 bottles of donated ARVs for Ukraine from UK-CAB members.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The current war against Ukraine will be disrupting treatment for people living with HIV, whether they stayed in Ukraine or left as refugees to other countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This led to urgent requests for unused HIV and other meds, and medical supplies. This is even though International agencies and drug manufacturers are also organising to meet this demand.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukcab.net\">UK-CAB<\/a> collected more than 100 bottles in the first week of a new campaign led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eacsociety.org\/guidelines\/eacs-guidelines\/\">EACS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/britishhivassoc\/status\/1499996642572918784\">BHIVA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please send all donations in the UK to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>FAO: HIV consultants, 5th Floor Mortimer Market Centre, London, WC1E 6JB<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>People living with HIV often have unused meds from when our last treatment was changed. <strong>If these are returned to your clinic they will be destroyed, even if unopened and in date.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Medicines need to be in original packaging, ideally in unopened packs. All HIV and related meds are acceptable,<strong> even if they are past the use by date.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All donations will be screened beforehand to make sure they are suitable.<\/p>\n<h2>Donations from other EU countries<\/h2>\n<p>This project is linked to the\u00a0<strong>Young Investigators (YING) network in the European AIDS Clinician Society (EACS)<\/strong> who are working to support HIV care in the Ukraine and other countries most directly affected.<\/p>\n<p>Their website appeals for medical supplies, HIV treatments and financial support.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/awarehiv.com\/en\/Dare-to-Share-Care\/Ukraine\">https:\/\/awarehiv.com\/en\/Dare-to-Share-Care\/Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Donations from the US<\/h2>\n<p>Donations of unused meds from the US is being co-ordinated by AID for AIDS.\u00a0This organisation has been recycled HIV meds globally for over 25 years<\/p>\n<p>Other meds can be included that are not ARVs, but the US programme only wants medicines that are still in date,<\/p>\n<p>People in the US should please post to:<br \/>\n<strong>AID for AIDS<\/strong>, 131 Varick Street, Suite 1006 New York, NY 10013.<br \/>\nTeL: (+1)\u00a0212.337.8043<br \/>\nFree FedEx or USPS shipping is available via the website:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/aidforaids.org\/\">aidforaids.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: The current crisis has meant that UK regulations have been relaxed to allow all donations. This is an exceptional situation. People in the UK are advised to not use out-of-date medications.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are HIV positive and new help for HIV care after leaving Ukraine, please use the &#8216;contact us&#8217; section on this website. Whatever country you are now in, someone will contact you back with information. https:\/\/awarehiv.com\/en\/Dare-to-Share-Care\/Ukraine A new EU-funded &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43998,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42694\/revisions\/43998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}