One in six people with HIV treated in Poland is now from Ukraine, but many more still seem to get care back home
Dr Miłosz Parczewski presenting at HIV Glasgow 2022. Image: HIV GlasgowThe number of refugees with HIV coming from Ukraine to Poland has so far raised the number receiving care in Poland by 16%, the International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection (HIV Glasgow) heard on Sunday.
This is fewer than expected. Ukraine, home to about 250,000 people with HIV, has nearly ten times as many people living with the virus as neighbouring Poland – which has received by far the highest number of refugees from the war with Russia (apart from those displaced into Russia).
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