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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 ...

• HIV diagnoses in European MSM have almost doubled since 2000, UK tops the list

  Transmission and prevention
  Roger Pebody | 28 November 2008

  Data from 23 European countries show that the annual number of HIV diagnoses in men who have sex with men (MSM) has increased by 86% between 2000 and 2006, report ...

• 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 ...

• IAS: Low rates of HIV transmission in breastfeeding women on ART

  Families and children
  Theo Smart | 24 July 2007

  Antiretroviral therapy (ART) appears to dramatically reduce the chances of breastfeeding women with HIV transmitting the virus to their infants, according to two studies presented on Tuesday at the 4th ...

• 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 ...

• First European HIV Resistance Workshop highlights non-B subtypes, replicative capacity

  Yasmin Halima | 04 April 2003

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