Open AccessAIDS epidemic increasing faster in eastern Europe than in rest of world: new figures
Author(s) -
B Twisselmann
Publication year - 2001
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 9999-1233
DOI - 10.2807/esw.05.48.02063-en
Subject(s) - rest (music) , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , third world , old world , medicine , demography , geography , economic growth , political science , virology , history , economic history , sociology , economics , biology , zoology
The number of cases of HIV infection in eastern Europe is rising faster than anywhere else in the world, according to a report published by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) on 28 November (1). The latest figures, published to coincide with this year’s World AIDS Day on 1 December, show that there were more than 75 000 new diagnoses of HIV infection in Russia between January and early November 2001, a 15-fold increase in just three years.