"Bureaucracy & Beliefs": Assessing the Barriers to Accessing Opioid Substitution Therapy by People Who Inject Drugs in Ukraine.  Bojko MJ, Mazhnaya A, Makarenko I, et al.  Drugs (Abingdon Engl). 2015;22(3):255-262. doi:10.3109/096876…

Treating opioid dependence with extended-release naltrexone (XR-NTX) in Ukraine: Feasibility and three-month outcomes.  Makarenko I, Pykalo I, Springer SA, Mazhnaya A, Marcus R, Filippovich S, Dvoriak S, Altice FL. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2019 S…

Effect of expanding opioid agonist therapies on the HIV epidemic and mortality in Ukraine: a modelling study.  Tan J, Altice FL, Madden LM, Zelenev A. Lancet HIV. 2020 Feb;7(2):e121-e128. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3018(19)30373-X. Epub 2019 Dec…

The real-world impact of dosing of methadone and buprenorphine in retention on opioid agonist therapies in Ukraine.  Farnum SO, Makarenko I, Madden L, Mazhnaya A, Marcus R, Prokhorova T, Bojko MJ, Rozanova J, Dvoriak S, Islam Z, Altice FL. Ad…

Perspectives of clients and providers on factors influencing opioid agonist treatment uptake among HIV-positive people who use drugs in Indonesia, Ukraine, and Vietnam: HPTN 074 study.  Kiriazova T, Go VF, Hershow RB, Hamilton EL, Sarasvita R…