Creator: Centro de Estudios para la Equidad y Gobernanza en los Sistemas de Salud (CEGSS)
Description: This documentary describes the work that people living in rural communities of Guatemala carry-out to monitor local health care services and demand accountability. It also presents views on the need to use tools that would generate audiovisual evidence for accountability.
Creator: ENPUD, Alliance Ukraine
Description:806 patients of the opioid substitution therapy in Crimea were deprived of treatment after OST was prohibited by the Russian authorities in May 2014. As a consequence of this crime the patients just began to... pass away! Two of the 10 people filmed in this video are already dead. In memory of them, Igor Kouzmenko, an OST patient from Simferopol, filmed a unique video recording his friends begging for salvation. How many more victims will be claimed before this terrible mistake is finally recognized?
Creator: ENPUD, Alliance Ukraine
Description:According to UN data, 6,400 persons were killed, 16,000 wounded, and 1,300,000 had to leave their homes as a result of the war in the East of Ukraine since April 2014. Tens of thousands of people were left without treatment, including hundreds of clients of opioid substitution treatment (OST) programs. As of the beginning of June 2015, 275 clients were still receiving their substitution therapy in the warfare zone in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. Before the war, over 1,000 people received OST services there. Sites are running out of the Methadone. The stock of Buprenorphine was depleted back in February 2015. The Ukrainian Government hasn’t allowed the delivery of OST narcotic drugs to the uncontrolled territories, and the authorities of “LPR” (Luhansk People’s Republic) decided to abandon OST and close the program. All the efforts of international organizations to ensure supplies of the drugs to Donetsk failed…
Creator: ENPUD, Alliance Ukraine
Description:Irina is a mother and former drug user that lost control of her life after being sentenced to prison on paraphernalia charges. After a few years, she was diagnosed with liver disease and other illnesses, which led to her release from prison. After finding her way back home, Irina entered an opiate substitution treatment program which allowed her to function as a normal member of society and gain back control of her family life.