Bulgaria

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• Upsurge in HIV diagnoses among IDUs in Greece and Romania - are reduced prevention services the cause?

  Injecting drug users
  Michael Carter | 16 January 2012

  New diagnosis and prevalence of HIV increased sharply among injecting drug users in Greece and Romania in 2011, European investigators report. Several other countries in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) also ...

• In Europe, seven in ten HIV diagnoses are in men

  Epidemiology and behaviour
  Roger Pebody | 06 December 2010

  Just under 26,000 people were diagnosed with HIV in the European Union in 2009 and 72% of those diagnosed were men, researchers report in the December 2 issue of Eurosurveillance. ...

• Study rates Luxembourg as having the best HIV prevention and care in Europe

  HIV treatment
  Roger Pebody | 19 October 2009

  A study assessing 29 European countries’ HIV policies and services has highlighted best practice and areas for improvement, with widespread differences between European countries. Overall, the countries rated as having ...

• Criminal HIV transmission and exposure laws spreading around the world ‘like a virus’

  Social and legal issues
  Edwin J. Bernard | 07 August 2008

  Concern over the growing international trend towards the criminalisation of HIV transmission or exposure was documented in a Wednesday morning session at the XVII International AIDS Conference that highlighted “criminalisation ...

• 'Trickle-down' education can increase safer sex practices in hard-to-reach communities

  Transmission and prevention
  Edwin J. Bernard | 31 October 2005

  Hard-to-reach communities at high risk of acquiring HIV may well benefit from peer-led risk-reduction interventions, according to the results of a two-arm randomised community trial in Russia and Bulgaria. According ...

• Prosecutions for HIV exposure and transmission on the rise throughout Europe

  Epidemiology
  Edwin J. Bernard | 18 July 2005

  A groundbreaking new report prepared by The Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS Europe (GNP+ Europe) and the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT), has discovered that out of the 45 ...