Gaps in HIV Prevention Expose Europe to Risk of Outbreaks

The trend can quickly change, however, as it did when HIV spread rapidly among injecting drug users in Greece and Romania in 2011 and 2012. In the absence of effective measures to curb these epidemics, the explosive spread of infections among injecting drug users in the capital cities resulted in these two countries accounting for more than one third of all new HIV diagnoses associated with injecting drug use notified in the whole of the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) in 2012, whereas in 2010 they had represented only 2% of the total.

In 2013, all but four EU/EEA countries reported rates of new HIV diagnoses associated with injecting drug use below 10 per million population. However, Lithuania reported a rate of 21 and Greece of 22 new diagnoses per million population, while Latvia and Estonia reported 38 and 55 new diagnoses per million population, respectively…

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