In Arkhangelsk and Vladimir, we are collaborating with the local health authorities and the Northern State Medical University to implement a nine-month treatment regimen for DR-TB. In September 2023, we started enrolling patients on an even shorter – six-month – all-oral treatment regimen in Arkhangelsk that was recommended by the World Health Organization in its updated treatment guidelines in late 2022.

In Moscow and Saint Petersburg, we continued to partner with two community-based NGOs to support access to general healthcare, as well as testing and treatment for infectious diseases, for people living with HIV and other vulnerable groups, such as migrants, who otherwise struggle to obtain medical assistance.

Throughout 2023, our teams worked in southwestern Russia, providing mental health and psychosocial support to people displaced by the international armed conflict in Ukraine. We collaborated with local NGOs in the cities of Belgorod and Rostov-on-Don to ensure that people affected by the conflict received medical and mental health support.

In August, we concluded our support to a Voronezh-based NGO and started a new partnership with a local NGO in Taganrog, in Rostov region. Jointly, we organised medical consultations and referrals for displaced people and provided technical support and training to NGO staff. We also donated urgently needed aid, such as food parcels, hygiene kits and essential household items, for distribution by local organisations to people displaced from Ukraine and those inside Russian border areas.