Eastern Europe and Central Asia

News from aidsmap

• International study finds "worrying" levels of XDR-TB

  Drug-resistant TB
  Michael Carter | 31 August 2012

  Results of an international study published in The Lancet show that 7% of people receiving second-line treatment for tuberculosis (TB) have extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB). The investigators describe this finding as “worrying”. A total ...

• Female sex workers have 14 times the risk of having HIV as other women

  Sex workers
  Roger Pebody | 31 July 2012

  Although researchers and public health organisations in most low and middle income countries have not collected any recent data on the prevalence of HIV in female sex workers, the data that do ...

• International AIDS Conference hears how drugs, sex and HIV interlock

  Injecting drug use
  Gus Cairns | 25 July 2012

  Two sessions at the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington looked at the way injecting drug use, recreational drug use and unsafe sex interlock to multiply HIV risk, and how ...

• They say we can “end AIDS”, but who will pay for it?

  Finance and funding
  Mara Kardas-Nelson | 24 July 2012

  With leaders from Mark Dybul to Michel Sidibé to Hillary Clinton to Anthony Fauci all saying that "we can end AIDS", the question is, who will pay for it? Speaking at a Monday session ...

• Criminalising condom possession by sex workers is a global trend

  Sex workers
  Mara Kardas-Nelson | 24 July 2012

  There's nothing new about sex work being illegal – a fact that remains the norm in many countries – but now sex workers are being targeted for simply trying to protect their health ...

• UNAIDS: Africans with HIV more likely to get ARVs than Eastern Europeans

  Access to medicines and treatment
  Keith Alcorn | 18 July 2012

  UNAIDS says that international efforts are on target to deliver antiretroviral treatment to 15 million people by 2015, but people eligible for treatment are much more likely to be getting antiretroviral drugs in ...

• 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 ...

• HIV prevalence in gay men is catching up in eastern Europe, survey finds

  Men who have sex with men (MSM)
  Gus Cairns | 24 November 2011

  The EMIS survey of nearly 180,000 gay men in Europe has found that, while HIV prevalence in the richer countries of western Europe is twice as high as in eastern Europe, similar proportions ...