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Refugees on the Ukrainian border. File photoPRAGUE, Mar 27The Czech Ministry of Health is increasing stocks of anti-infective drugs in connection with the arrival of a large number of refugees from Ukraine in the republic, spokesman for the department Ondřej Jakob told reporters on Sunday. Prime Minister Petr Fiala, the Czech Republic has already received more than 300 thousand refugees from Ukraine, which is about 3% of the population of the republic itself. a challenge for Europe»Due to the influx of large numbers of refugees, we have asked the EU authorities and some pharmaceutical companies to provide additional volumes of medicines intended, among others, to fight the HIV virus, to treat hepatitis type C and tuberculosis, and as well as vaccines against certain types of infections,” Yakob said. that in Ukraine the situation with the spread of viral infections is much worse than in the Czech Republic. «In Ukraine, about 600 thousand HIV-positive patients and 146 thousand are treated with antiretroviral therapy,» Primula told reporters. In the Czech Republic, according to 2020 data, there were 3.8 thousand HIV-positive citizens, about 700 of them developed AIDS. internally displaced personsInfographicView