He had to withdraw from the headquarters in Kyiv, and now Andriy Klepikov is holding the fort in Lviv – and is in contact via the Internet with his seventy colleagues at the “Alliance for Public Health” and their numerous partners at home and abroad.
The Ukrainian aid organization is dedicated to fighting AIDS and tuberculosis, TB, and has built up a network of around 3,000 helpers, including doctors, social workers and nursing staff, who have been providing medical care and psychological support to those affected for years.
With the ambitious goal of putting an end to both epidemics.
It is known that some of the helpers and patients died as a result of Russian attacks, while there was no sign of life from others.
Sonya Kastilan
Editor in the "Science" department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper.
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So instead of continuing the successes of recent years - further reducing infection rates of HIV or the tubercle bacillus, increasing the number of contacts traced or making sure that TB patients actually stick with their treatment, which 88 percent are now doing, where half used to be gave up - the "Alliance" is now taking on other roles.
Among other things, they organize treatment in neighboring countries, distribute food packages or help with papers, and the manager comforts employees who were only able to save themselves from an attack with a backpack, and then found their apartment and car completely destroyed.
"It's not safe here in the West either," Klepikov wrote on Thursday, sending a photo of a burned-out car to document the aftermath of a rocket attack.