English Version - Health Policy Project

CONTENTS
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Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 1
Definitions of Terms ..................................................................................................................................... 3
Fundamental Ethical Principles ................................................................................................................. 6
The Legal Code of Ukraine ........................................................................................................................ 7
Specific protections against discrimination for PLHIV and vulnerable populations ................................ 7
Instances of discrimination by means of de facto criminalization ............................................................ 7
Protection from prosecution for filing discrimination complaints ............................................................ 8
Statute of limitations ................................................................................................................................. 8
Examples of remaining stigmatizing elements of legal code .................................................................... 8
System to provide free legal services ........................................................................................................ 8
Difference between the law and implementation ...................................................................................... 9
Overall Purpose of the System .................................................................................................................. 9
Referral of individual cases to resolution.................................................................................................. 9
Data protection ...................................................................................................................................... 9
Disclosure to claimants on level of confidentiality to be expected
from monitoring/reporting system ...................................................................................................... 10
Anonymous claims ............................................................................................................................. 10
Validation of claims ............................................................................................................................ 10
Data protection in Ukraine—Laws ..................................................................................................... 11
Use of data to initiate criminal cases .................................................................................................. 11
Data protection in Ukraine—Existing monitoring/reporting systems ................................................ 11
Referral systems .................................................................................................................................. 11
Referral resources in Ukraine ............................................................................................................. 12
Reporting of aggregated data .................................................................................................................. 14
Shadow reports ................................................................................................................................... 14
Discrimination data reporting in Ukraine ........................................................................................... 15
System Scope ............................................................................................................................................ 16
Stigma and/or Discrimination ................................................................................................................. 16
PLHIV and/or Key Populations .............................................................................................................. 18
Sectors ..................................................................................................................................................... 18
Technical Solutions ................................................................................................................................... 18
Data Collection ....................................................................................................................................... 19
Active data collection ......................................................................................................................... 19
Passive data collection ........................................................................................................................ 19
Reporting Mechanisms ........................................................................................................................... 19
Crowdsourcing and Mapping (crowdmapping) .................................................................................. 20
Ukraine Opportunity ............................................................................................................................... 20
Sources of Funding ................................................................................................................................... 21
Promotion of Reporting Services ............................................................................................................. 22
Annex A: Stigma and Discrimination Reporting Systems ..................................................................... 23
Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland—Australia ..................................................................... 23
Jamaica National HIV-Related Discrimination Reporting and Redress System—Jamaica .................... 23
Care Quality Commission—United Kingdom ........................................................................................ 23
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