Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (January 16, 2012) – Antiretroviral (ARV) medicines supplied to Kyrgyzstan by UNDP meet requirements of the World Health Organization said Professor Vladimir Krcmery, Rector of St. Elizabeth University of Health and Public Sciences, Bratislava (Slovakia), during his visit to province AIDS centers of Osh and Jalalabad. UNDP supplies ARV drugs as a principle recipient of the Global Fund Grant to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.

Professor Vladimir Krcmery was part of a delegation of doctors from Slovakia who visited Kyrgyzstan during 11-14^th January 2012. The doctors examined 165 HIV-positive children in Osh city and province and 26 HIV-positive children in Jalal-Abad city and province. They noted that the level of treatment that these children have beein receiving is quite high, which emphasizes high professionalism of medical specialists involved.

The delegation also met with representatives of local civil society organizations fighting HIV. During the meeting public foundatiosn Life+, Dochki-Synochki and Mama+ raised their concerns that ARV medicines used in Kyrgyzstan are old. Professor Krcmery assured that all medicines supplied to Kyrgyzstan withing the Global Fund grant are advanced and currently in use globally. Besides, he noted that the grant provides free ARV treatment for HIV-patients, which is a great achievement for Kyrgyzstan. Currently, the province AIDS center warehouses have sufficient stocks of ARV medicines.

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Update on the situation with HIV-infection in the Kyrgyz Republic (Feburary 01, 2012)

Total: 3965.
Citizens of the Kyrgyz Republic: 3785.

AIDS: 440

Died: 541 including 195 from AIDS.