During May – Mental Health Awareness Month – as part of the USAID «Public Health System Recovery and Resilience Activity» project, we are conducting seminars for educators, representatives of the social sphere, health care, and public organizations, where we introduce participants to the “Healing Mind and Body” program (CMBM), aimed at working with the psychological […]
This week, the USAID project team «Public Health System Recovery and Resilience Activity» summed up the first results of its activities and discussed future plans at a two-day meeting in Kyiv. In particular, they planned further steps to expand access to mental health services and implement psychosocial support programs – this project component, in collaboration
Together with the specialists of the “Family Circle” Health and Development Center, we conducted a three-day online training for teachers, social workers and psychologists working in the education system, under the program “Children and War: Teaching Healing Techniques”. The program was developed by the international organization CHILDREN AND WAR FOUNDATION to provide psychological assistance to
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Recently, the team of the USAID project «Public Health System Recovery and Resilience Activity» began to actively implement trainings on the clinical management of mental disorders under the mhGAP program for primary care doctors (family doctors, pediatricians, internists) and nurses. mhGAP (Mental Health Gap Action Programme) is WHO’s global flagship program aimed at increasing access
The team of the project «Public Health System Recovery and Resilience Activity» together with the WHO conducts trainings for trainers and supervisors on the clinical management of common mental disorders in primary care facilities. The five-day training is based on the mhGAP Guidelines, version 2.0, for the management of psychiatric, neurological disorders and disorders related
With the onset of the full-scale Russian invasion, the migration of people who use drugs by injection (PWID) between regions of Ukraine increased, and the risks of them discontinuing HIV treatment and receiving HIV services in general increased. Considering the current challenges, there is a demand for improvement of already existing or introduction of new
Today in Kyiv, Pact, which implements the USAID Project “Public Health System Recovery and Resilience Activity” in Ukraine, together with the NGO “Barrier free” held a dialogue platform dedicated to the development of the system of mental health services in communities. The event was organized within the framework of the initiative of First Lady Olena
The website of the Yale School of Medicine talked about two projects that Yale scientists are implementing in Ukraine together with Ukrainian colleagues, in particular with the team of the European Institute of Public Health Policy. Yale Infectious Diseases Earn Two NIH Grants For Work In Ukraine Yale Department of Internal Medicine’s Section of Infectious
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Recently, within the framework of the “50+” and “PROST” projects, we held the children’s drawing contest which allowed the adults to feel the sadness and feelings of the children and to look at the catastrophe of the war through the prism of children. All the participants of the competition received gifts, and some of them
The latest EIPHP research results on various aspects of the HIV epidemic in Ukraine were presented at the virtual poster sessions of the 24th International AIDS Conference. On 29 July – 2 August, the 24th International AIDS Conference “AIDS 2022”, organized by the International AIDS Society (IAS), took place in a hybrid format both virtually and