Ukraine

It’s been one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. The rumblings of war are felt in Orlando, where about a half-dozen wounded Ukrainian soldiers are being fitted for prosthetic legs.

The project began just before the pandemic in 2020 as an offshoot of an already established street medicine clinic run by USF faculty and students.

Tampa doctors advised a delegation from Ukraine about how to rehabilitate people wounded during the country's ongoing war with Russia. Ukrainian medical specialists say they expect some soldiers and civilians will need lifelong support.

The war has hammered Ukraine's health care budget, leaving some patients without access to care. U.S. hospitals are helping to fill the gap.

Dr. Enrique Ginzburg, a surgeon with a passion for helping other doctors around the world care for trauma patients, recently went to Lviv in Ukraine to mentor physicians whose patients have suffered injuries during the war with Russia.

Drug manufacturers invested in Russia’s pharmaceutical industry contend international humanitarian law requires they continue manufacturing and selling their products there, even while condemning the Ukraine invasion.

A clinic in Kiev, Ukraine, stirs controversy by making babies with DNA from three different people to help women who are infertile bear children. It's the only clinic known to be doing this right now.