Public health considerations over HIV amidst war and COVID-19 in Ukraine: Harnessing contemporary history to address the syndemic

C Tsagkaris¹, L Matiashova^{1

2}, V Vladychuk³, D V Moysidis^{1

4}, M Papadakis⁵, C Trompoukis⁶

Affiliations

¹ European Student Think Tank, Public Health and Policy Working Group, 1058 Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Department of Chronic Diseases Risk Prevention, National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
³ Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
⁴ Hippokration University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁵ University Witten-Herdecke, Wuppertal, Germany.
⁶ Department of History of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.

C Tsagkaris et al. Ethics Med Public Health. 2022 Jun.

. 2022 Jun:22:100795.

doi: 10.1016/j.jemep.2022.100795. Epub 2022 Apr 25.

C Tsagkaris¹, L Matiashova^{1

2}, V Vladychuk³, D V Moysidis^{1

4}, M Papadakis⁵, C Trompoukis⁶

¹ European Student Think Tank, Public Health and Policy Working Group, 1058 Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Department of Chronic Diseases Risk Prevention, National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
³ Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
⁴ Hippokration University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁵ University Witten-Herdecke, Wuppertal, Germany.
⁶ Department of History of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.

No abstract available

Keywords: AIDS; COVID-19; HIV; Public Health; Ukraine; War.

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