Two years of war, illness and economic pain has followed Ukraine’s revolution, and reforms are still slow to arrive.
If you want to know why Ukraine had a revolution, consider this: it has one of the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemics, and yet officials deliberately overcharged their own health ministry for anti-retrovirals to make money for themselves. In 2013, about a quarter of the money intended for HIV medicines was embezzled, while more than half the Ukrainians who died of Aids-related conditions lacked access to drugs.
And that was not an isolated example: children lacked vaccines, haemophiliacs lacked clotting factor, diabetics …read more
Source: New Statesman
