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Hello, my name is Olga Belyaeva, I live in Ukraine.
I would like to tell you about the importance of the Global Fund programs in my life.
I was born in a city, which is an industrial center.
There were a lot of different possibilities in my city,
except for one – help for people who use drugs.
I resorted to different people, to different hospitals.
My family went through a terrible grief, my child was alone and desperate.
The situation had changed in the year 2004.
The Global Fund programs have brought to our country new technologies,
and it brought to Ukraine humanity. My life has been changed.
I became a participant of the Substitution Therapy program,
and it means that I could keep my family and my ***-negative status,
I saved my son and my relationship with him.
Because of the Global Fund programs
more than 5500 people receive therapy in our country today.
And more people would like to receive this treatment.
Unfortunately, all the questions concerning drug addiction are very much political.
The government change affects attitudes towards our problem.
The Global Fund with its beliefs and values is steady,
and it uses only scientifically proved methods.
It is very important today to keep the Global Fund programs in Ukraine,
so that ***-positive and drug addicted people could receive treatment.
Do you understand that it means life for us today?
With fear I think that if countries which give money
would find out some reasons to not finance the programs
I could be left without the treatment.
To stay without the treatment means not only to die physically,
but also to lose hope, to lose friends, to lose job.
The opportunity to be part of the wonderful and
vitally important Global Fund programs is very important for us today.
That is why I ask people who live in countries
which help to finance the Global Fund programs
to understand that it is life for us today, and we want to live tomorrow.