Ukraine HIV Research Training Program

纽约州立大学下州分校的纽约国际培训和研究项目（NYS-ITRP） 健康科学大学建议提供培训，以改善获得COVID-19服务的机会， 乌克兰的艾滋病毒感染者（PLWH）。这一目标将通过系统地评估 影响乌克兰艾滋病毒感染者和艾滋病患者的服务差距，并为乌克兰的艾滋病毒感染者创建模块化培训课程 和新型冠状病毒卫生工作者。该项目将以艾滋病毒研究培训基础设施为基础， 在前几年的母D43赠款乌克兰艾滋病毒研究发展的能力 培训计划。主要合作伙伴包括乌克兰公共卫生政策研究所和 国立基辅莫希拉大学（NaUKMA）。我们的联合体非常适合完成 提出的目标，并提供及时和可持续的卫生工作人员培训。的COVID-19 大流行病和公共卫生应对措施继续对整个非洲产生前所未有的影响。 地球仪。虽然SARS-CoV-2的传播似乎是不分青红皂白的，但一些人群 与其他人相比，后果更严重。COVID-19及其相关影响 在低收入和中等收入国家， 包括乌克兰。增加影响严重性的关键因素包括社会经济 脆弱性、增加COVID-19疾病严重程度的合并症的存在以及对 获得重要的健康服务。在乌克兰，艾滋病毒携带者，其中许多人有非法药物使用史， 性工作者容易受到所有这些因素的影响。为了确保不间断地提供艾滋病毒和新冠病毒- 有效的公共卫生应对措施应包括一个目标， 评估现有的服务差距和成因， 对COVID-19影响的具体知识和应对紧急情况的技能。具体目标包括 分析艾滋病毒服务提供的趋势，评估COVID-19和健康的影响 部门对关键指标的反应;查明服务差距和造成差距的因素 在艾滋病毒治疗级联和新冠病毒相关的服务提供给艾滋病毒感染者;确定 卫生部人员能力建设的优先事项，公共卫生 中心、区域卫生部门和公共卫生中心以及艾滋病毒服务人员;以及 提高公共卫生和医疗专业人员持续提供关键服务的能力 于2019冠状病毒病疫情持续及其他突发卫生事件期间计提拨备。后 项目完成后，课程将进一步发展，扩大规模，并通过我们的关键 教育合作伙伴在NaUKMA，国家研究生教育学院，和 乌克兰卫生部公共卫生中心。

The New York State International Training and Research Program (NYS-ITRP) at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University proposes to provide training to improve access to COVID-19 services to people living with HIV (PLWH) in Ukraine. This goal will be achieved by systematically assessing the service gaps affecting PLWH in Ukraine and creating a modular training curriculum for Ukraine’s HIV and COVID health workforce. The project will build on the HIV research training infrastructure and capacities developed during the previous years of the parent D43 grant Ukraine HIV Research Training Program. Key partners include the Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy and the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla (NaUKMA). Our consortium is ideally suited to accomplish the proposed aims and produce timely and sustainable health workforce training. The COVID-19 pandemic and the public health response continue to have an unprecedented impact across the globe. While the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 seems to be indiscriminate, some populations experience more severe consequences compared to others. The impact of COVID-19 and associated health disparities due to HIV status have been particularly acute in low- and middle-income countries, including Ukraine. Key factors that increase the severity of impact include socioeconomic vulnerability, presence of co-morbidities that increase severity of COVID-19 disease, and disruption in receiving vital health services. In Ukraine, PLWH, many of whom have a history of illicit drug use or sex work, are vulnerable to all these factors. To ensure uninterrupted provision of HIV and COVID- related services to PLWH, an effective public health response should include an objective assessment of existing service gaps and contributing factors and the development of a workforce with specific knowledge of COVID-19 impact and skills to address emergencies. Specific aims include analyzing trends in HIV service provision and assessing the impact of COVID-19 and health sector response on key indicators; identifying service gaps and factors contributing to gaps in the HIV treatment cascade and COVID-related service provision to PLWH; identifying priorities for capacity building for Ministry of Health (MoH) personnel, the Public Health Center, regional health departments and public health centers, and HIV service workforce; and increasing the capacity of public health and medical professionals in sustaining key service provision during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic and other health emergencies. Upon project completion, the curriculum will be further developed, scaled up, and sustained by our key educational partners at the NaUKMA, the National Academy of Postgraduate Education, and the Public Health Center of the MoH of Ukraine.