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The kits are sufficient to cover more than major or around minor operations. Emergency risk communication ERC is a vital public health intervention. Years of conflict and humanitarian crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic and eastern Ukraine have had a dramatic impact on health systems in these countries, as well as in places like Turkey — now home to millions of Syrian refugees.

Health workers are often on the frontline of escalating hostilities, as they strive to continue delivering medical care amid horrific conditions.

The Ukrainian government, policy-makers and nongovernmental organizations have committed to support country progress towards achieving the goals of the Tuberculosis Action Plan for the WHO European Region — With support from WHO and international health partners, in , Ukraine started implementing a new approach to TB prevention and care aimed at improving detection, treatment and financing of tuberculosis TB health-care services. From immunization superheroes to supermoms, countless individuals helped ensure that European Immunization Week EIW on 23—29 April was a great success in keeping vaccines at the top of political and personal agendas across the WHO European Region.

Over 12 people have been infected with measles in Ukraine so far this year. Of those affected, have required hospitalization and 9 have died, according to information provided by national health authorities as of 27 April Large-scale outbreak response measures have been undertaken since the start of the outbreak in to curb further spread of the disease and restore high routine immunization coverage.

Day 2 of the high-level meeting Health Systems Respond to NCDs kicked off with participants diving directly into policy workshops covering 4 key topics: financing and incentive alignment, health workforce, governance and financing of intersectoral action, and medicines.

Despite significant progress made, tuberculosis TB remains the top infectious killer worldwide. But revamped political commitment for immediate and bold actions will still be needed to end TB by Smoking increases the risk of contracting tuberculosis TB , increases the risk of recurrent TB and impairs the response to treatment of the disease.

Despite evidence showing these harmful links between tobacco and TB, many Ukrainian patients continue to smoke. But for Vladislav Kirichenko, a former sales manager, a relapse of TB finally convinced him to give up cigarettes. The participants included representatives from key organizations working in human health, animal health, the environment sector and academia, the ministries of health and agriculture, and professional associations. The diversity of participants was designed to ensure a multisectoral, One Health approach as outlined in the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance.

As Ukrainian armed conflict enters its fourth year, 3. Among them, the residents living within 5 kilometres of the kilometre contact line are most in need. Their lives are more heavily affected by continued shelling, limited freedom of movement, and scarcity of food, fuel and medicines, as well as by increased health risks and lack of access to health services. To truly understand the needs of adolescents, it is vital to listen to adolescents themselves.

This was a central feature on the agenda of the first ever inter-country meeting and international conference addressing the mental health and well-being of adolescents living in central Asia, which took place on 17—20 January in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Country delegations from Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, as well as Kazakhstan, participated in the exchange of knowledge, experiences and plans to better understand and address the mental health needs of adolescents.

Measles continues to spread in Ukraine, with new cases now being reported in all oblasts and Kyiv. These cases are the latest in an expanding outbreak that affected over people and claimed the lives of 5 children and adults in , according to preliminary data. The latest information from other countries in the WHO European Region also indicates a rise in cases, including large measles outbreaks affecting Greece, Italy and Romania.

The Government of Ukraine has committed to fund and expand access to opioid substitution therapy OST for over 10 patients at health-care facilities in This represents a fold increase in the number of OST patients in Ukraine since On 7 December , the Parliament of Ukraine adopted a policy on increasing tobacco taxes for the coming 7 years, until According to the national plan, in the specific tobacco tax and minimum excise tax per cigarettes will increase by As of 21 December, 35 confirmed cases of Salmonella Agona infections among infants aged less than six months have been identified in different regions of France.

Sixteen infants have been hospitalized but all have fully recovered and no deaths have been reported. WHO finalized an international review of a breakthrough clinical protocol for HIV infection in Ukraine that will put the country on the fast track to scaling up HIV treatment and care. To improve subregional capacity for early diagnosis of tuberculosis TB , WHO Europe conducted training on the operation and maintenance of biosafety cabinets.

Biosafety cabinets are a protected laboratory workspace where contaminated or potentially contaminated materials can be handled safely. Technicians and engineers from Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine attended the training in Tbilisi, Georgia on 29 August—6 September They also requested assistance in investigating the patent status of specific finished products of essential medicines in their countries.

To enhance WHO country support in times of crisis, over 30 WHO staff have improved their skills in readiness for multi-hazard emergencies, such as disease outbreaks, natural disasters, conflicts, and chemical and radiation exposure by undertaking specifically designed training. Following WHO recommendations, Ukraine has strengthened its anti-tobacco legislation resulting in this reduction in the proportion of the population who smoke.

After 3 years of conflict, health-care resources in conflict-affected areas of Ukraine are severely stretched and humanitarian funding is plummeting.

On 30—31 May , the Ministry of Health of Ukraine in collaboration with WHO conducted a consensus meeting on the assessment of the Ukrainian emergency care system. Emergency care systems are a key substrate for effective emergency response and for mitigating the risk of system collapse and therefore, secondary mortality in the face of large-scale emergencies.

On 20 June , WHO and partners presented a professional smoking cessation service to support Ukrainians suffering from tobacco dependence. Many countries took the opportunity of World No Tobacco Day to plan media events and press conferences in cooperation with national authorities and political figures, including ministers of health and parliamentarians.

These events, some of which took place in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan, led to significant national media coverage across print, television and online media outlets.

Enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health is a fundamental human right.

Prisoners should have the same standard of medical care as people living in the community. The healthy prison concept reinforces the idea that the health and well-being of prisoners is not the sole responsibility of those providing health care in a prison, but is also dependent upon the regime and ethos of each establishment.

The first ever Global Health Sector Strategy on Viral Hepatitis, adopted in May by the World Health Assembly, calls for elimination of viral hepatitis as a public health threat by High-level staff of the Ukraine Public Health Centre and the Ministry of Health of Ukraine benefited from a seminar organized in Kiev, on 20—21 April, to strengthen leadership for the ongoing large-scale public health reforms in the country.

The Ministry of Health of Ukraine has embarked on a sector-wide reform reorienting health services delivery towards stronger primary health care. The country is planning to allow primary health care doctors to establish private practices to deliver services included in the universal benefit package by establishing individual contracts with the government. This reform is expected to give primary health care practitioners greater autonomy to reach out to patients by improving quality.

Reaching and maintaining high immunization coverage requires the engagement of all actors in society. By contributing to European Immunization Week EIW in April , two recently established nongovernmental organizations NGOs in Ukraine, Parents for Vaccination and the Ukrainian Academy of Paediatrics, demonstrated the key role of civil society in helping the Government and international partners raise awareness among the general public and health professionals.

Despite the significant progress made in tobacco control in Ukraine over the last decade, the process of strengthening tobacco legislation remains slow.

The Ukrainian nongovernmental organizations Life and Coalition for Smoke-Free Ukraine, as well as international partners, are urging policy-makers to consider two draft tobacco control laws before 31 May — World No Tobacco Day. Draft law contains a ban on flavoured cigarettes and provisions for enlarging warnings about the dangers of smoking and mandating their placement on both sides of the pack.

It also seeks to remove tobacco advertising from the Internet, forcing tobacco producers to provide accurate information about the contents of cigarettes. Draft law proposes banning the display of cigarettes in shop windows and better protecting people from tobacco smoke by increasing smoke-free public spaces and strengthening law enforcement of smoking bans.

This will hopefully help reduce the attractiveness and the prevalence of smoking, especially among children. Ukraine has been preparing for health events that could happen during the Eurovision Song Contest taking place in Kyiv, with focus on hospital safety and health in mass gatherings.

With three applicants for every place, the course is an important fixture for health policy-makers in Europe. This year the 66 participants from 25 countries included senior officials from health and finance ministries, health insurance funds, major international institutions, universities and nongovernmental organizations.

The fact sheets clearly demonstrate the positive health impact of strong tobacco control policies consistent with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. In , Finland had the highest rate of coronary heart disease CHD mortality in the world, and the region of North Karelia in eastern Finland had the highest rate in the country. To address this issue, the region initiated what is known as the North Karelia Project, a far-reaching, community-based intervention that aims to reduce CHD mortality by encouraging healthier habits and cutting down on risk factors such as high cholesterol intake and smoking.

This creates both a need and an opportunity to review the provision of reproductive health care at the level of PHC, and to define which services should be provided within a state-guaranteed package for the Ukrainian population. Ukraine is among only 14 countries in the WHO European Region where measles and rubella remain endemic. With WHO support, health authorities in the country organized a national conference on measles and rubella elimination on 21—22 February in Kyiv. A large shipment of WHO interagency emergency health kits is on its way to help meet immediate health needs in response to the recent intensification of fighting and shelling in the eastern part of Ukraine.

The Parliamentary Subcommittee on Road Safety part of the Parliamentary Transport Committee , Verchovna Rada, organized a roundtable on road safety, which was attended by 40 stakeholders on 24 November in Kiev. Kseniya, 44, from the non-government controlled area of Luhansk, has diabetes.

The review of progress on the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness IMCI strategy in the WHO European Region aims to define factors facilitating or hindering implementation for the improvement of child care access and quality in 16 countries. Rotary International Ukraine and the nongovernmental organization Parents for Vaccination PfV took advantage of World Polio Day on 10 October to raise public awareness about the risk of polio in Ukraine and the need to protect all children through immunization.

Several public events were organized in the capital city of Kiev, drawing large-scale public and media attention. As a follow-up on a regional workshop in , in the WHO Regional Office for Europe appointed a consultant lawyer to assist the Ministry of Health of Ukraine assess the national legislation on involuntary isolation and on treatment for TB and the compassionate use of new anti-TB drugs.

As a result specific recommendations were presented to update the legislation, while making use of the current one for importing much needed new anti-TB drugs such as delamanid and bedaquiline. With the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine, access to quality essential health and nutrition services is an immediate need for approximately 2.

The first training of trainers for the Essential training for primary health care workers on the integrated management of hypertension and diabetes took place in Kyiv, Ukraine on October, followed by the first cascade trainings for one hundred primary health care PHC doctors and nurses on October Today, on World Polio Day, all WHO Member States and partners pause to celebrate the great progress made towards the global goal of eradicating poliomyelitis polio.

Conflicts in the Syrian Arab Republic and the knock-on effects in Turkey, as well as the unrest in eastern Ukraine, are putting unprecedented pressure on the health of affected populations. On 15 July , WHO delivered to Luhansk 58 tons 8 truckloads of life-saving medicines and medical supplies, the biggest cargo of international humanitarian medical assistance to eastern Ukraine since the beginning of the crisis.

Health system reform should be based on the values of solidarity and equity. Outbreak preparedness and significant improvements in surveillance and immunization coverage remain essential to ensure that poliovirus polio cannot make a comeback in the European Region.

Ukraine has taken its first steps towards developing national eHealth strategy. On 18 and 19 May , Bonn, Germany hosted the WHO international meeting on the economic health costs and impacts that the past and present use of asbestos has on society.

Participants were representatives of 13 countries — Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Serbia, Tajikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkmenistan and Ukraine — and experts from international organizations and research institutes.

People wait for a doctor's consultation in front of the old building functioning as a primary health care facility in Synykha village, Ukraine. Halyna, 70, cries. She has heart disease but it is almost impossible for her to visit a doctor.

I cannot afford medicines. We have not received proper health care for more than 2 years since the conflict started. Without the support provided by the mobile team, I cannot imagine how I would survive. Built on the theme of universal health coverage, the course reviewed ways to improve health systems' performance through better policy on health financing.

Between 14 and 22 April a team of 20 people from international organizations carried out a comprehensive review of the Ukrainian national tuberculosis TB control programme. A team of technical experts assessed Ukraine's response to a polio outbreak and concluded that transmission of poliovirus has been interrupted. Nevertheless, the team remains concerned about significant gaps in immunization and surveillance that put Ukraine at high risk for new outbreaks.

On 14—15 March , representatives of the United Nations Population Fund, WHO staff and policy-makers from 17 countries in eastern Europe, the Caucasus and central Asia met in Tbilisi, Georgia to discuss further improvement of their national sexual and reproductive health policies.

The use of social and other digital media — Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, text messages, video and websites — for health messaging is growing rapidly in the WHO European Region. Improvement in health status, financial protection, well-being, equitable access and satisfaction with the health services provided to the Ukrainian population, especially to vulnerable groups, is the overall goal of the "Policy Dialogue for Better Health Governance" project launched on 17 February in Kyiv, Ukraine.

WHO urges parents in Ukraine to ensure that children under 10 years of age get their dose of polio vaccine during the third round of the current polio vaccination campaign. Between 25 January and 5 February , children can receive the polio vaccine at a local clinic, at school or in kindergarten.

This is part of the country's ongoing response to the polio outbreak. WHO is engaging with journalists, health workers and health mediators to prepare for the third round of Ukraine's nationwide polio vaccination campaign. Starting on 25 January , this round targets 4. Members of the Ukrainian Parliament, supported by the Ministry of Health, recently proposed a draft law to align the country's tobacco control policy with that of the European Union.

In Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, key print and television journalists at the regional and national levels, and communication representatives of regional health centres participated in a 1-day workshop in December aimed at building their capacity to report on tobacco-related issues. On 26—27 November , a roundtable to define the concept and strategic direction of the national tuberculosis TB programme for — was held in Kyiv, Ukraine.

It brought together TB response managers and public health decision-makers, national and international partners, and representatives of civil society and patient's organizations. Ukraine completed the first round of a polio vaccination campaign addressing the current circulation of polio virus in the country.

As of 7 November , over a million children received their first polio vaccination dose, according to latest figures released by the Ministry of Health. The scope of the project was presented. A nationwide vaccination campaign with oral polio vaccine was launched today in Ukraine in response to a polio outbreak in the country. WHO applauds the decision taken by the Ministry of Health to begin the campaign, which is mandated by international guidelines as part of a comprehensive outbreak response.

United Nations agencies are concerned further delay puts 1. It is a nerve-wracking set up: In a hotel conference room in Kyiv, Ukraine, a doctor sits in front of a TV camera being grilled with questions and accusations about polio and the vaccine to fight it.

To make matters worse, he is surrounded by an audience of his peers, who listen keenly to every word. It starts in January and will run for 3 years. The two cases have a genetic similarity, which indicates that active transmission of cVDPV1 is ongoing. WHO delivered more than 5 tons of medicines and medical supplies to eastern Ukraine. Distributed emergency health kits are expected to cover the needs of 30 people residing in non-government controlled areas.

Evidence provided by the Region's Member States, summarizing their polio surveillance, monitoring and immunization results, satisfied the Commission that no wild polioviruses were circulating in the Region in However, the RCC expressed grave concerns that the past 3 years of low coverage with polio vaccination in Ukraine, along with the current crisis in that country, pose a serious threat of polio that must be addressed urgently by all stakeholders.

WHO has trained medical staff in Ukraine to deliver high-quality health services for internally displaced people and communities in conflict areas. Now, 16 mobile emergency primary health care units are operating in eastern Ukraine, giving over consultations a week to people affected by the crisis.

World Health Day was an opportunity to recognize the important food safety role of all involved in food production, and to strengthen collaboration and coordination between these different areas to prevent, detect and respond to foodborne diseases.

A workshop to build capacity for comprehensive multi-year planning cMYP on immunization in countries eligible for support from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization Gavi took place on 27—29 April in Copenhagen, Denmark. The process of updating cMYPs for the upcoming cycle is a vital time to translate the goals, objectives and proposed actions of the European Vaccine Action Plan — EVAP into national immunization plans.

The crisis situation in Ukraine resulted in additional burden on the Roma population. Since the crises started, 10, Roma people are estimated to have fled from their residences in the Eastern part of the country. However, many are not even recognized officially as citizens of Ukraine. The workshops were held in Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa, Poltava and Lviv.

The reports included information on the provision of health care to children, the activities of medical emergency public health units MEPUs , Roma communities and centres for internally displaced persons IDPs , and updates on health information tools and needs assessments. The following briefly highlights WHO activities in the region. Following a joint United Nations mission to the area of eastern Ukraine not controlled by the Government on 27—31 January , WHO set up a field office in the city of Donetsk.

Health facilities have been damaged and medical supplies will soon be depleted. From January the new network of mobile emergency primary health care units will support the fragile health care system in delivering health services for internally displaced people IDPs , receiving communities and communities in conflict areas. On 22 September , WHO delivered The emergency health kits will help the Ukrainian Ministry of Health and local health authorities respond to the needs of the population residing in or displaced from the Donbas region.

WHO is expanding its health response in Ukraine to support the health needs of those affected in conflict areas and internally displaced by the ongoing fighting in the Donbas region Donetsk and Luhansk of eastern Ukraine.

The project aims to build the capacity of TB programmes to perform operational research in order to inform policy and practice and improve TB control. This training course comprises three workshops, inter-workshop mentorship and support by international experts, and an operational research project led by the participant. The two to three week courses were tailored to the specific needs of these NICs and covered different aspects of the laboratory diagnosis and virological surveillance of influenza.

The group of infectious diseases known as hepatitis A, B, C, D and E affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide and kills close to 1. In a landmark event and after several months of intensive work including preparation and approval of national drug resistance survey protocol, the first group of national experts were trained to implement the pilot anti-TB drug resistant survey DRS in Kharkov, Ukraine, from 22 to 24 June This year, the World No Tobacco day awards were given to individuals from Hungary, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Ukraine in recognition for their accomplishments in tobacco control.

The World Health Assembly approved a resolution on the General Programme of Work and changes to the financial regulations and rules on 21 May It will discuss a draft global action plan for noncommunicable diseases, as well as action plans on mental health and the prevention of avoidable blindness and visual impairment. The visiting experts represented the Foundation for Development of Ukraine, a non-profit organization that aims to achieve control of tuberculosis.

The purpose of their visit was to gain a better understanding of the status of leprosy in these countries and to link the work of leprologists with global efforts to tackle the disease.

Using an integrated care model, Ukraine is providing treatment to patients who are HIV positive and inject drugs. To mark World No Tobacco Day , the WHO Country Office in Ukraine organized a roundtable with tobacco control specialists focused especially on this year's theme of stopping tobacco industry interference. Read more …. The President of Ukraine last week signed a comprehensive tobacco advertising ban, taking a major step towards full compliance with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, to which it became Party in Participants from eight countries in the WHO European Region took part in a workshop to train trainers to establish and develop national programmes to build capacity for risk reduction and the management of public health emergencies.

On 13—16 September , the Ministry of Health of Ukraine hosted a three-day technical workshop and one-day national conference to discuss and adopt new ways to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in the country.

Ukraine has developed and implemented new national standards for safe abortion care. A local laboratory in Donetsk has confirmed Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1, biotype El Tor, serotype Ogawa as the causative agent in all cases. Photo story documenting personal accounts of people living with and fighting against HIV in Ukraine. The Ukrainian health system has preserved the fundamental features of the Soviet Semashko system against a background of other changes, which are developed on market economic principles.

The transition from centralized financing to its extreme decentralization is the main difference in the health system in comparison with the classic Soviet model.

Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Director for Europe, will join many other leaders from around the world to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and to review the reconstruction and development of the affected communities. On 30 March , the Ministry of Health of Ukraine announced the adoption of pictorial health warnings on tobacco products, to be introduced on 30 September In celebration of World Health Day an international scientific conference on antimicrobial resistance and its global spread took place in Kyiv April Representatives of Belarus, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine will meet at a workshop in Minsk, Belarus, on April to share experiences and discuss challenges related to the implementation of the Protocol on Water and Health.

The results of the study are published in the final report "Evaluation of structure and provision of primary care in Ukraine". A national conference to launch the report was organized in Kiev on 15 December Assessment of health systems' crisis preparedness — Ukraine has been published and is available for download.

Countries Ukraine News. All Hand hygiene practices advanced by WHO at hospitals in Ukraine No less than hand hygiene stations have been established in Ukraine, with WHO support, after a WHO survey in 5 tertiary referral hospitals revealed that there are not enough hand sanitizers at points of medical care.

World Polio Day highlights progress and ongoing commitment to end polio everywhere In , the world committed to eradicating wild polio. One case of polio detected in Ukraine In Ukraine, 1 case of poliomyelitis polio , caused by circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 cVDPV2 , has been confirmed.

Clean equipment at the heart of care: WHO helps Ukraine improve infection safety WHO is assessing infection safety levels in hospitals in Ukraine and supplying them with new equipment and information materials, as well as training hospital personnel.

Early detection of cervical and breast cancers urgently needed in newly independent states Women living in the newly independent states NIS who develop cervical or breast cancer are likely to have their cancers diagnosed much later than in other European countries, and cases are on the rise. Ending tuberculosis: how health workers can make a difference Although the burden of tuberculosis in the WHO European Region is among the lowest in the world, in Ukraine the disease continues to be a major public health challenge.

Ten years to transform our world: accelerating progress on sustainable development in Ukraine With only 10 years left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs , Ukraine is accelerating its national dialogue on reaching the ambitious targets. Breakthrough WHO initiative launched in Europe to engage and empower civil society organizations in health emergency responses Throughout the pandemic, civil society organizations CSOs have been crucial partners in reducing the impacts of COVID on individuals and communities, particularly those in hard-to-reach vulnerable groups.

Ending this pandemic, preventing the next one: European perspectives at the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly The Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly, held on 24—31 May , was once again dominated by discussions on responding to the short- and longer-term consequences of the COVID pandemic, and on ensuring that countries, health systems, organizations and societies are better prepared to meet the challenges of future health threats. Spotlight on people who risk losing their sight WHO Europe highlights the lack of effective eye screening for people with diabetes - The aims are simple: to reduce the risk of diabetes and ensure that all people who are diagnosed have access to equitable, comprehensive, affordable and quality management of their condition.

Infectious disease specialist Nataliia Rudiuk - ensuring equitable access to health for HIV patients in Ukraine Health inequities, including in quality, availability and affordability of health-care services, lead to unnecessary suffering, avoidable illness, disability and premature death. World Tuberculosis Day: supporting Ukraine in scaling up TB diagnosis and treatment World Tuberculosis TB Day, observed worldwide on 24 March, provides an opportunity to underline an issue which has dramatic health, social and economic consequences — tuberculosis infection.

WHO supports clinical guidelines development process in Ukraine As Ukraine transforms its health system to improve access to high quality health services and increase financial protection for its population, the standardization of care and adoption of evidence-informed practices, including the development of clinical guidelines and protocols, are essential elements on the health system reform path.

New WHO report reveals that while smoking continues to decline among European adolescents, the use of electronic cigarettes by young people is on the rise Tobacco use among young people in the WHO European Region remains a public health concern. Ukraine working towards universal health coverage while responding to COVID Ukraine is transforming its health system so that people can get the quality health-care services they need without experiencing financial hardship.

WHO report on health behaviours of 11—year-olds in Europe reveals more adolescents are reporting mental health concerns In around a third of countries, the report reveals a rise in adolescents feeling pressured by schoolwork and a decline in young people reporting to like school. Ukraine: new WHO report shows need for comprehensive approach to tobacco control A new report shows that despite the progress achieved in Ukraine in the past 10 years, a more comprehensive approach is needed to tackle tobacco use and its associated health issues in the country.

Collaboration between health and education sectors helps improve vaccination coverage in Ukraine Stopping the recent measles outbreak in Ukraine has required good coordination at all levels between the health and education sectors. Coronavirus disease COVID : European Region focusing on readiness In response to the detection of the COVID virus in China in December , countries in the WHO European Region have been activating national plans to ensure that health and other systems are not just prepared for but also ready to respond to importation of this new virus.

Ukraine launches programme to improve immunization services and surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases Following a successful pilot programme to build capacity among primary health care and public health staff to improve disease surveillance and immunization services related to poliomyelitis, measles, rubella, diphtheria, pertussis and mumps, the Public Health Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine together with WHO will now be launching this initiative country wide.

Strengthening response to measles outbreak in Ukraine Ukraine has reported over 57 measles cases for , representing over half the total number reported in the WHO European Region for the period January to November Violence against children: tackling hidden abuse Each year, at least 55 million children experience some form of violence in the WHO European Region, including physical, sexual, emotional and psychological violence.

Time for integrated and people-centred services for HIV, TB and viral hepatitis The international medical journal, The Lancet, has published an article demonstrating the benefits of integrated and people-centred services in responding to the rise of HIV, tuberculosis TB and viral hepatitis in eastern European and central Asian countries of the WHO European Region.

Eradicating polio includes preparing for its possible return If poliovirus were detected in your country, what actions would be taken to prevent its spread? New additions to the network of national influenza centres make surveillance in the Region stronger Influenza laboratories in Cyprus, North Macedonia, Turkmenistan and Ukraine have recently received WHO formal recognition as national influenza centres NIC.

World Mental Health Day: suicide prevention in Ukraine Every 40 seconds, 1 person dies from suicide. Ukraine: supporting nongovernmental organizations in addressing mental health needs in emergencies In order to support nongovernmental organizations NGOs in their response to emergencies around the world, WHO in partnership with the International Medical Corps organized a capacity building initiative in Kyiv, Ukraine on 16—23 July On World Humanitarian Day, WHO recognizes women at the forefront of humanitarian work Lack of access to essential health services is one of the biggest challenges for people living in emergency settings.

The influenza season is over … for now The — influenza season in Europe has finally drawn to a close, having begun in late November and peaked between late January and early February. Eastern Ukraine: training primary health-care professionals to provide mental health services To support primary health-care professionals to provide mental health services in eastern Ukraine, 12 teams of family doctors and nurses from Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region were trained to identify the symptoms of widespread mental conditions such as depression, acute stress, grief, post-traumatic stress disorder, self-harm and substance use disorders, and to provide basic mental health care.

Are you a leader for road safety? Improving trauma care and emergency response in eastern Ukraine Over 40 health-care professionals from government-controlled areas of Donetsk Region, Ukraine, strengthened their knowledge and skills in emergency medicine through the Advanced Trauma Care Training ATCT held in Kramatorsk on 23—25 April Ukraine prepares for first nationwide survey to assess risk factors for noncommunicable diseases Ukraine is scaling up preparations to conduct its first nationwide survey to assess the prevalence of the risk factors for noncommunicable diseases NCDs , including tobacco and alcohol use, physical inactivity, and unhealthy dietary habits.

Ukraine: championing universal health coverage through health financing reform In the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region of Eastern Ukraine, the primary health care PHC centre is experiencing a big change.

Developing a national action plan to stop violence against children in Ukraine Supporting the development of a national action plan to stop violence against children, WHO held a policy dialogue on 6—7 February in Kiev, Ukraine. Sporadic Cossack uprisings were now directed against the Tsars. Following the final Partitions of Poland in the s, the Russian Empire absorbed the remainder of modern-day Ukraine apart from its extreme west, which was annexed by Austria. The territories of Ukraine remained a part of the Russian state for the next years.

In spite of this, a distinct Ukrainian national consciousness emerged and consolidated in the course of the 19 th century, particularly among the elites and intelligentsia, who made various efforts to further cultivate the Ukrainian language. When the Russian Empire collapsed in the aftermath of the revolutions of , the Ukrainians declared a state of their own.

After several years of warfare and quasi-independence, however, Ukraine was once again partitioned between the nascent Soviet Union and newly independent Poland. Armed revolts against Soviet rule were staged during and after World War II and were centred on the western regions of Ukraine that had been annexed from Poland in It was only with the collapse of the Soviet Union in that Ukraine gained lasting independent statehood of its own — but Ukrainian de facto political entities struggling for their autonomy or independence had existed long before that.

The message conveyed by using this term is that these territories are not historically connected to the remainder of Ukraine. The precise south-eastern borders of historical Ukraine are indeed difficult to establish.

By the s, the Zaporizhian Cossacks were able to establish a modicum of control over these territories, and they also settled in some regions that extend far into present-day Russia.

Substantial settlement of these vast territories did not begin until the early 19 th century, and their ethnic make-up remained very diverse — as reflected by the fact that it was neither Ukrainians nor Russians, but British industrialists , who founded Luhansk and Donetsk , the two cities at the centre of the current separatist conflict.

This was done with no consideration for the ethnic make-up of the population, and today these areas form the southeast of Ukraine. The first Soviet census in , a few years after the eastern borders of the UkrSSR had been finalised, showed that in all territories of eastern Ukraine, including those that are now contested, ethnic Ukrainians still far outnumbered ethnic Russians. But as much as these assumptions may resonate with ordinary Russians, as well as some foreign leaders, a glance into Ukrainian history reveals that they are based on a dangerously distorted reading of the past.

Ultimately, by redrawing borders and rewriting history the Kremlin is unlikely to have done itself a favour. Through its intervention in Ukraine it has galvanised most Ukrainians in their aversion to Russia and has thereby done a great deal to demarcate the perceived differences between Ukrainians and Russians more clearly than ever before. The Yorck Procject Wikimedia Commons. Thank you so much for writing this article. Thank you for researching so well.

Duben gets many points right, but his springboard is unfortunately the repetition of late 18 and 19th century Russian rewriting of history in the search for an extended pedigree. Indeed, the name, Romania, and also a Latin language, makes the parallel even more complete. You get the point. Other observations are that the forced starvation of was not the result of agricultural policies, concluded in early , but the blockading of the country and removal of all edibles in order to break the back of the Ukrainian ethos, originating and secured by the village.

It seems to me that Puti n is seeing all this backwards or upsidedown. As the Kievan Rus existed first, and unsatisfied peoples began moving north in search of a better? Kiev would indeed be the Mother of Slavic cities. Indeed, a nice overview of the Ukrainian history, with few omissions. First, until the 11th century schism in Christianity into Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, Kyivan Rus had common faith with Rome, and dynastic marriages linked Kyiv with faraway Paris.

Second, the Ukrainian nation existed for centuries in the minds and hearts of its people without a state. A nation-state concept does not apply. Although the Ukrainian language belongs to the Balto-Slavic language family, it shares less than one percent of root words with Russian and that is according to Russian etymologists.

Most borrowings have entered the Ukrainian language via Latin, German, and Polish, whereas Russian borrowings come mostly from Turkic languages. Third, the Ukrainians have preserved their democratic tradition of governance, evident from periodic popular revolutions to change the government if it no longer meets the needs of the civil society.

Russia, in contrast, has become an authoritarian dictatorship, largely thanks to its founding father Peter the Great, uneducated in any European university, except shipyards of Amsterdam. Finally, little wonder why Stalin had a portrait of Peter the Great in his bunker in Samara, dug out in when Nazi troops were advancing on Moscow. Stalin, who did not identify himself with backward Georgia, but with Great Russia, forged this straight jacket identity on the Ukrainians, who spoke the language the Bolsheviks did not understand.

The Ukrainians fought for their freedom from autocracy and tyranny, be it Soviet or Nazi, to have the right to live in their own land and speak their own language. Think about it! President Vladimir Putin and Russian nationalists have repeatedly said Russians […]. This unambiguously […].