The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected the health and well-being of LGBT people around the world, including in Ukraine. To assess the health effects of the pandemic, a study on how COVID-19 impacted PrEP users in Ukraine was conducted by Alliance for Public Health together with ECOM — the Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity (ECOM) — in partnership with national organizations in Ukraine and the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, Technical University of Munich.
Data collection was completed three days before the full-scale war and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

40.5% of participants reported having experienced some form of intimate partner violence (IPV) in the past six months (as of February 2022). Of these, 12.2% reported forms of controlling behavior by a sexual partner, 11.2% reported sexual violence, 10.8% experienced emotional and physical violence and 9.7% reported economic violence. 7.6% of survey participants indicated that their sexual partner had pressured them to have unprotected sex. The majority of those affected by IPV, report it as a relatively new phenomenon that they had not experienced before (e.g., 54.6% of those who experienced sexual violence in the past six months indicated that they had not experienced this before).
This might imply that intimate partner violence has become both more prevalent and more frequent during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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PrEP, Pre-exposure Prophylaxis, mostly refers to a medical drug to prevent HIV/AIDS.