AIDS invades Eastern Europe and falls to the west

Last year, according to international experts in public health, more than 130,000 people were diagnosed with HIV in Eastern Europe, with the highest infection rate in the region, while new infections Virus in Western Europe.

HIV infection rates in the European Union and the European Economic Area have decreased in 2017. Data from the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Regional Office from Europe to Europe (ECHO) in Europe reported that about 160,000 people had been diagnosed with H5 in Europe last year.

"It's hard to talk about good news in another year that has seen an unacceptably high number of people infected with HIV," said Susana Jacab, director of the regional office of the WHO. She called on governments and health officials to recognize the seriousness of the situation.

UNAIDS warned in July that inaction had begun to disrupt the fight against the disease in the world, that the pace of progress was not being met and that there were about 37 millions of people living with HIV around the world.

According to the World Health Organization, the European region has 53 countries and nearly 900 million inhabitants. Some 508 million of them live in the 28 EU Member States, alongside Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.

Since the beginning of the disease in the 1980s, more than 77 million people have been infected with the H5 virus worldwide. Nearly half of them, or 35.4 million, have died.