Patient and provider perspectives inform an intervention to improve linkage to care for HIV patients in Ukraine

• Main Authors: Tetiana Kiriazova (Author), Oleksandr Postnov (Author), Trista Bingham (Author), Janet Myers (Author), Timothy Flanigan (Author), Charles Vitek (Author), Oleksandr Neduzhko (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Engagement with HIV medical care is critical to successful HIV treatment and prevention efforts. However, in Ukraine, delays in the timely initiation of HIV treatment hamper viral suppression. By January 01, 2016, only 126,604 (57.5%) of the estimated 220,000 people living with H...