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17/05/2013 - Russia has 'no anti-AIDS strategy': official
MOSCOW — There is no government strategy to fight the spread of AIDS in Russia, where the number of deaths caused by the disease continues to grow, a senior healthcare official said on Thursd... -
13/05/2013 - WHO says Cambodia can end HIV infections by 2020
Cambodia is on track to become one of the few countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic and may eliminate new infections by 2020, the World Health Organization said Friday. ... -
10/05/2013 - Up to a third of HIV infections in European gay men may have come from another country
Recent infections also more likely to have crossed borders A study (Frentz) that looked at genetic similarities in the HIV from recently diagnosed people in 24 European countries found... -
09/05/2013 - Interview: Lack of data on gay men impedes HIV fight in Central Asia
In recent years, the countries of Central Asia have experienced some of the fastest growing rates of HIV infection in the world. One of the key populations at risk is men who have sex with men (MSM... -
04/05/2013 - Little cross-border spread of HIV seen in 26-country European study
Despite international travel and fluid population movement across Europe, three quarters of clustered new infections in a 26-country study involved people from the same country and another 10% invo... -
25/04/2013 - ECDC: Country mission Finland: HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and hepatitis B and C
This report from the ECDC country visit to Finland in October 2012 provides an overview of Finland’s national strategies and programmes for HIV and sexually transmitted diseases. Th... -
13/04/2013 - Treating everyone diagnosed would not end HIV in US gay men, Los Angeles-based model finds
Increasing testing frequency and changes in sexual risk behaviour after HIV diagnosis may have greater impact on new infections Increasing HIV testing frequency, and giving everyone an... -
09/04/2013 - Ukraine's youngest HIV campaigner
Ukraine is suffering from one of Europe's worst Aids epidemics but most people with HIV have no access to the drugs that would enable them to lead normal lives - a fact which one teenager, amon... -
29/03/2013 - HIV/AIDS, TB rates sap Russian health
MOSCOW — Russia considers itself a robust member of the global community, keeping pace with heavyweights such as the United States and China. But when it comes to health, the world’s la... -
15/03/2013 - International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine: Harm reduction wins the battle against HIV/AIDS in Ukraine
The largest HIV-prevention program in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) region implemented by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine with support of the Global Fund has proven its ... -
06/03/2013 - ECDC: Annual Epidemiological Report 2012
Released today, ECDC’s new Annual Epidemiological Report provides a comprehensive review of more than 50 communicable diseases currently notifiable under EU legislation. European communic... -
22/02/2013 - ECDC: STI and HIV prevention in men who have sex with men in Europe
Across Europe men who have sex with men (MSM) represent one of the key groups affected by HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI). At present, MSM account for almost half of all syphili... -
22/02/2013 - Transmitted ARV resistance rate near 5% in Slovenia, mostly in MSM
Nearly 5% of antiretroviral (ARV)-naive people studied in Slovenia had HIV bearing resistance mutations, a rate still below the European average. Nearly 90% of people carrying resistant virus were ... -
22/02/2013 - In MSM of Croatia transmitted ARV resistance rate 22%, and clusters are common
Among antiretroviral-naive HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) studied in Croatia, 22% carried virus bearing mutations that confer resistance to one or more antiretrovirals (ARVs). There w... -
20/02/2013 - Republic of Georgia plagued by hepatitis C
The Republic of Georgia’s public health services are struggling against a hepatitis C epidemic. Official statistics place the number of those infected with the illness at 200,000, which i... -
20/02/2013 - The burden of liver disease in Europe: A review of available epidemiological data
To survey the burden of liver disease in Europe and its causes 260 epidemiological studies published in the last five years were reviewed. The incidence and prevalence of cirrhosis and primary ... -
19/02/2013 - UK: HIV increase in gay men caused by fall in condom use
A fall in the proportion of gay and bisexual men using condoms is behind the rise in HIV infections in those groups in the UK, say researchers. Wider use of anti-retroviral drugs has helped to ... -
07/02/2013 - Georgia reports 493 new cases of HIV/AIDS for 2012
The South Caucasus country of Georgia has reported 493 new cases of HIV infection and the country has so far registered 3,667 people living with HIV or full-blown AIDS. The figure was published... -
02/02/2013 - UK: HIV levels in gay men 'not falling'
A resurgence of risky sexual practice could be behind a failure to curb HIV in gay and bisexual men in England and Wales, researchers suggest. New infections were static at about 2,300 a year b... -
02/02/2013 - Spread of hepatitis C pinpointed
Scientists say they have, for the first time, worked out the pattern of spread of hepatitis C, showing early diagnosis is key to preventing epidemics. A study in injecting drug users in Greece ... -
02/02/2013 - Number of HIV cases in Czech Republic highest since 1985
Prague, Jan 30 (CTK) - The number of HIV positive cases registered in the 10.5-million Czech Republic in 2012 has been the highest in the Czech Republic since 1985 when the HIV testing was launched... -
31/01/2013 - ECDC meeting report: Responses to HIV and migration in western industrialised countries: current challenges, promising practices, future directions
On the event of the 19th International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC (USA) in 2012, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), the United Sta... -
31/01/2013 - Uzbekistan short of HIV drugs
A shortage of retroviral medicines used to treat HIV/AIDS in Uzbekistan is being put down to the government’s policy of understating national infection rates, and hence the amount of drugs it... -
28/01/2013 - HIV-like viruses in non-human primates have existed much longer than previously thought
Viruses similar to those that cause AIDS in humans were present in non-human primates in Africa at least 5 million years ago and perhaps up to 12 million years ago, according to study published Jan... -
23/01/2013 - Joint technical mission: HIV in Greece
Greece has been experiencing a low-level HIV epidemic for a number of years. Men who have sex with men have been the most affected population. Since the beginning of 2011, Greece has been facing a ... -
22/01/2013 - Report from EU HIV/AIDS Civil Society Forum 3-4 December 2012, Luxemburg
In Luxemburg, on 3-4 December 2013, members of the EU Civil Society Forum on HIV/AIDS met with representatives of the European Commission, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Contr... -
10/01/2013 - Living with stigma and ignorance: HIV on the rise in Belarus
At the end of the last year, the Healthcare Ministry of Belarus in partnership with the UNDP started a campaign to challenge HIV/AIDS-related stereotypes and myths. An exhibition “Life ... -
09/01/2013 - Greece HIV remedies hit as crisis threatens drug curbs
Greece’s efforts to control its debt crisis threaten to hobble the fight against an outbreak of HIV that has become the largest among drug users in the European Union. The nation’s ... -
07/01/2013 - Al Jazeera examines HIV in Russia
Al Jazeera continues its coverage of HIV in Russia, where "[t]he latest official figures show that about 200 new cases are being recorded every single day." The news service wri... -
07/01/2013 - Rising death in the streets of Athens: The human toll of the Greek tragedy
It's a cold winter afternoon and Maria* is fixing her makeup in a glittered storefront window in downtown Athens. Maria, an occasional sex worker, is 27 years old, but drug use and life on the ...
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