Today, implementing PrEP in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia is complicated due to extremely high levels of stigma and discrimination, as well as to legal mechanisms. For example, in some countries, no official statements about PrEP for HIV have been registered, and there is no legislative basis for prescribing PrEP.

Full-fledged projects to introduce pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV among MSM and trans people have been implemented in Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova. In Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, the public healthcare systems are taking the first steps towards launching PrEP pilot projects only this year. The remaining countries of the region are less active in implementing PrEP, and have not found sources of funding even for small-scale projects.

Moldova
A training was held for medical specialists involved in PrEP programs and for representatives of the LGBT community. The PrEP implementation program in the country pays special attention to discordant couples, in which one of the partners is living with HIV and the other is not.
In addition to providing legal and psychological support, the organization “GenderDoc-M” carries out HIV prevention work, including the popularization of PrEP in Moldova.
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