Ukraine Health Issues Discussed
LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 22, 2016) – Jennifer J. Carroll of Brown University and Miriam Hospital visits the University of Kentucky Friday to discuss “Power Struggles: Addiction, War and Other Forms of Conflict in Ukraine.”
Carroll’s talk is 4-5:30 p.m., March 25, in the theater of UK’s Marksbury Building on Rose Street. It is free and open to the public.
The Health, Society, and Populations Program of the UK College of Arts and Sciences is the primary sponsor of the event with the Department of Health Behavior of the UK College of Public Health, the departments of anthropology and sociology in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, and the UK College of Medicine Center on Drug and Alcohol Research (CDAR).
In the last decade, significant global health resources have been allocated to contain the emergent and frequently co-occurring epidemics of HIV, TB and drug use in Ukraine. A substantial portion of available treatment services for these diseases is supplied by international donors.
As a consequence, integrated TB, HIV and addiction treatment programs for individuals determined at “high-risk” have become quasi-experimental staging areas for standardized, directly observed treatment protocols such as monitored methadone therapy and DOTS. (DOTS or Directly Observed Treatment Short course is an internationally recognized strategy for TB control.)
Based on 18 months of fieldwork throughout Ukraine, Carroll’s research “explores the trajectory of opiate users through internationally funded treatment efforts and the roles they are forced to play in the morally-charged social and political distinctions at the heart of the geopolitical conflict in this region.”
Carroll is a postdoctoral National Institutes of Health (NIH) research fellow at the Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, and an affiliated researcher at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
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