Epidemiology

Ukraine May Face AIDS Outbreak

Published in AIDS Weekly, March 1st, 1999

Health authorities in Ukraine may be spreading HIV by using blood transfusions from infected people who were tested on faulty equipment, a former top AIDS official charged.

Ukraine's government banned imports of HIV testing equipment in January 1998 to support domestic industry and cut costs by using cheaper, Ukrainian-made testers.

But the domestic testers are detecting HIV in only about 40 percent of cases, said Valeriy Ivasiuk, former chairman of the state committee for AIDS prevention. He based the charge on data collected by a government commission that double-checked the accuracy of testing equipment until October 1998. The commission was...

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