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The diseases of social significance are one of the biggest threats of people's health and well-being all over the world and a great burden for the healthcare system and community in general. It is widely known that the consequences of most of such diseases include temporary or permanent loss of working ability and continuous significant investments of money in the prediction, curing, and rehabilitation measures. The increase in the number of individuals with deviant behavior, especially among teenagers and young people, social disadaptation, migration of people, insufficient government funding for healthcare and social sphere concerning prevention of diseases of social significance and diseases linked with social status - all these factors create the background for the further complication of the STIs epidemic situation in Ukraine. It is scientifically proven that raising the quality of help given people with STIs and increasing its accessibility for different social strata, particularly for the representatives of the target groups, is an effective method for decreasing the rate of parenteral hepatitis and HIV infections in society. The aim of the current research is to assess the quality of the specialized help given patients with STIs (on the example of HIV-infected persons) in order to implement the integrated system of medical and social rehabilitation considering the features of the target group. The survey was conducted on the basis of designed questionnaires which included questions regarding the level of education, social status, necessity and frequency of appeals for medical help, particularly for dermatovenereological help, the affordability and comprehensiveness of the latter, the level of satisfaction with the received medical care, the respondent's assessment of quality and modernity of medical equipment. 389 questionaries' served as material for the research. Each questionnaire was composed of 15 questions. The respondents included 201 males and 188 females diagnosed with HIV-infection, who permanently live in Odessa region. Methods of research: analytical, descriptive, and statistical. The majority of HIV-infected respondents received incomplete secondary, complete secondary or vocational secondary education, 10,28% of them (40 respondents) received incomplete or complete higher education, which characterized the cohort of respondents as people with low level of education, social and sexual awareness. 24,16% of respondents (94 persons) were permanently employed; the others - were unemployed due to different reasons, and, consequently, had low social security level. More than half of respondents (220 individuals - 56,56%) were dissatisfied by the quality of dermatovenereological medical help due to the lack of medical equipment. Only 76 respondents (19,54%) were completely satisfied and positively characterized the latter. The necessity of the establishment of the specialized center of dermatovenereological help for HIV-infected patients was pointed out by 226 respondents (58,10%). The vast majority of HIV-infected respondents (80,98%) expresses quite strong opinion regarding the necessity of the establishment of multiprofile health care institution, which would provide the whole spectrum of medical services, taking into consideration the specific features of HIV-infected patients.
