More than 74,000 people reached through Ukrainian Red Cross Health Promotion and Disease Prevention activities in the first half of 2026

The Ukrainian Red Cross continues to actively implement its Health Promotion and Disease Prevention programme, raising awareness among different groups of people about healthy nutrition, the prevention of common non-communicable diseases (such as cardiovascular diseases and diabetes), infectious diseases (including tuberculosis, hepatitis, and COVID-19), and the importance of giving up harmful habits.

During the first six months of 2026, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention consultants conducted 61,359 awareness sessions and 2,139 motivational interviews for people seeking to make positive lifestyle changes and overcome harmful habits. A team of 200 volunteers and health consultants delivers information and practical sessions, conducts motivational interviews, and promotes voluntary blood donation.

The activities are tailored to people of all ages, helping to reach as many people as possible. Among those who benefited from the programme were 7,305 people displaced by the war and 2,499 people with disabilities.

The Ukrainian Red Cross currently implements the programme in the Kirovohrad, Odesa, Vinnytsia, Chernivtsi, Dnipro, Khmelnytskyi, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Zakarpattia, Lviv, Kharkiv, Ternopil, Poltava, and Chernihiv regions. The programme is supported by the Norwegian Red Cross, German Red Cross, Danish Red Cross, Canadian Red Cross, Austrian Red Cross, French Red Cross, and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

We thank our partners, volunteers, and consultants, who work every day to help build a healthier future for Ukraine.