In information released to mark the annual World AIDS Day, the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) says Eastern Europe and Central Asia continue to show “dramatic growth” in the number of HIV infections. WHO says new infections in the region have increased by 250 percent from 2001 to 2010. And it said some 90 [...]
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October 26, 2011
comment: Stopping the HIV Epidemic
comment: Stopping the HIV Epidemic By Joost van der Meer Published: October 26, 2011 (Issue # 1680) The Russian government put itself in the spotlight of the international health community by organizing a high-level forum in Moscow earlier this month on halting the spread of infectious diseases such as HIV. A goal agreed upon by [...]
October 12, 2011
‘Eastern Europe has fastest growing HIV epidemic in the world’ – UN official
Eastern Europe is beset by an HIV epidemic, but there is hope the situation can soon change for the better, according to the executive director of the UN’s AIDS program, Michel Sidibé. In Russia and in much of Eastern Europe, AIDS and HIV infections are a growing problem. In 2010, the number of cases in [...]
October 10, 2011
Lavrov: U.S. Afghan Policy Stokes HIV/AIDS Problem
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the United States was aggravating the HIV/AIDS problem in Russia and the rest of Europe by refusing to use its forces to destroy opium crops in Afghanistan. Lavrov made the comment at a conference opening in Moscow today on communicable diseases in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He said, [...]