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[snoop1130]

Europe's HIV epidemic growing at alarming rate, WHO warns

By Kate Kelland

 

FILE PHOTO: HIV self tests are displayed in a pharmacy in Bordeaux, France, September 15, 2015. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

 

LONDON (Reuters) - The number of people newly diagnosed with HIV in Europe reached its highest level in 2016 since records began, showing the region's epidemic growing "at an alarming pace", health officials said on Tuesday.

 

That year, 160,000 people contracted the virus that causes AIDS in the 53 countries that make up the World Health Organization's European region, the agency said in a joint report with the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

 

Around 80 percent of those were in eastern Europe, the report found.

 

"This is the highest number of cases recorded in one year. If this trend persists, we will not be able to achieve the ... target of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030," the WHO's European regional director, Zsuzsanna Jakab, said in a statement.

 

The trend was particularly worrying, the organizations said, because many patients had already been carrying the HIV infection for several years by the time they were diagnosed, making the virus harder to control and more likely to have been passed on to others.

 

Early diagnosis is important with HIV because it allows people to start treatment with AIDS drugs sooner, increasing their chances of living a long and healthy life.

 

"Europe needs to do more in its HIV response," said ECDC director Andrea Ammon. She said the average time from estimated time of infection until a person is diagnosed is three years, "which is far too long".

 

The report said new strategies were needed to expand the reach of HIV testing - including self-testing services and testing provided by lay providers.

 

Almost 37 million people worldwide have the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS. The majority of cases are in poorer regions such as Africa, where access to testing, prevention and treatment is more limited, but the HIV epidemic has also proved stubborn in wealthier regions like Europe.

 

The WHO European Region comprises 53 countries, with a population of nearly 900 million people.

 

The ECDC/WHO report found that over the past ten years, the rate of newly diagnosed HIV infections in this region has risen by 52 percent from 12 in every 100,000 of population in 2007 to 18.2 for every 100,000 in 2016.

 

That decade-long increase was "mainly driven by the continuing upward trend in the East," the report said.

 

An ECDC study published earlier this year also found that around one in six new cases of HIV diagnosed in Europe are in people over the age of 50.

 

(Reporting by Kate Kelland; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-11-28

[boomerangutang]

That decade-long increase was "mainly driven by the continuing upward trend in the East," the report said.

 

....meaning eastern Europe, a.k.a. East Bloc, during Soviet times.  That part of the world also has the hardest drinkers of alcohol - not just for Europe, but worldwide.  Is there a connection?  I think so.  Alcohol is the drug of choice for seductions, whether agreed-upon or coerced/date-rape.  I'm not saying it's the only factor, ....but that it's a factor.

[Baerboxer]

1 hour ago, boomerangutang said:

 

 

....meaning eastern Europe, a.k.a. East Bloc, during Soviet times.  That part of the world also has the hardest drinkers of alcohol - not just for Europe, but worldwide.  Is there a connection?  I think so.  Alcohol is the drug of choice for seductions, whether agreed-upon or coerced/date-rape.  I'm not saying it's the only factor, ....but that it's a factor.

 

Ok, we know you want to portray the demon alcohol in the worst possible light.

 

Might be an increase in junkies sharing needles eh?

[boomerangutang]

13 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

Ok, we know you want to portray the demon alcohol in the worst possible light.

Might be an increase in junkies sharing needles eh?

yes, it could also be that.  ....but alcohol relates to sex more than heroin.  Probably the biggest problem, in relation to the AIDS issue, is youngsters not using condoms.

[ilostmypassword]

Basically it's because Russia is doing next to nothing about HIV. Thanks, Putin.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/22/russias-silent-hiv-epidemic-fskn-krokodil-aids-public-health-putin/

http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanhiv/PIIS2352-3018(16)30155-2.pdf

https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21707981-russias-contempt-effective-drug-and-hiv-policies-killing-its-citizens-immune-reason

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-08-30/while-russian-government-looks-away-aids-spreads-quickly

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/15/russian-hiv-aids-epidemic-worsening-under-kremlin-policies-says-expert

[Scott]

Troll post removed.

[simple1]

10 hours ago, boomerangutang said:

 

 

....meaning eastern Europe, a.k.a. East Bloc, during Soviet times.  That part of the world also has the hardest drinkers of alcohol - not just for Europe, but worldwide.  Is there a connection?  I think so.  Alcohol is the drug of choice for seductions, whether agreed-upon or coerced/date-rape.  I'm not saying it's the only factor, ....but that it's a factor.

Plus very high levels of shared needle injection heroin addiction

Edited November 28, 2017 by simple1

[bert bloggs]

Perhaps it our new  immegrant friends that were invited over , are bringing it ? just a thought .

[Scott]

4 minutes ago, bert bloggs said:

Perhaps it our new  immegrant friends that were invited over , are bringing it ? just a thought .

No, it's not a thought.   It's a deflection and it's trolling.   Continue and face a suspension.   If you don't want that then try finding a link.  

 

 

[bert bloggs]

24 minutes ago, Scott said:

No, it's not a thought.   It's a deflection and it's trolling.   Continue and face a suspension.   If you don't want that then try finding a link.  

 

 

May i just ask why its a deflection Scott , many immegrants are coming from Africa ,where it states that hiv is growing due to their not being the facilitys to cure it ?

[Scott]

7 minutes ago, bert bloggs said:

May i just ask why its a deflection Scott , many immegrants are coming from Africa ,where it states that hiv is growing due to their not being the facilitys to cure it ?

I am not interested in getting into the discussion, but as of this reporting, it would appear that the majority of the problem comes from elsewhere.   If you have a credible link to substantiate that it is immigrants from Africa, then please post it and enlighten us.   Considering the area where most of the  immigrants come from, I would be more worried about other diseases, such as tuberculosis, but this thread isn't about TB.  Such unwarranted speculations is trolling and deflecting from the problem. 

 

Not all problems are caused by Immigrants from Africa.   HIV is a serious condition. 

 

Please stay on topic.  

[Sydebolle]

80% in Europe - explains the proper reporting in some countries and the usual "swipe-under-the-big-rug" attitude in others 

[ilostmypassword]

4 minutes ago, Scott said:

I am not interested in getting into the discussion, but as of this reporting, it would appear that the majority of the problem comes from elsewhere.   If you have a credible link to substantiate that it is immigrants from Africa, then please post it and enlighten us.   Considering the area where most of the  immigrants come from, I would be more worried about other diseases, such as tuberculosis, but this thread isn't about TB.  Such unwarranted speculations is trolling and deflecting from the problem. 

 

Not all problems are caused by Immigrants from Africa.   HIV is a serious condition. 

 

Please stay on topic.  

Also, the article specifically states that the problem is mainly coming from Eastern Europe. Not a lot of African immigrants there.

[simple1]

Link to the OP report at URL below.

 

While the data in this year’s report indicate alarming rates and increases in new diagnoses in some parts of eastern and central Europe over the last decade, at the same time there has been a tendency towards stabilising or even decreasing rates in some EU/EEA countries.

 

In the EU/EEA, the number of AIDS cases, and the number of AIDS-related deaths, has consistently declined since the mid-1990s.

 

https://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/hivaids-surveillance-europe-2017-2016-data

[Scott]

A post referring to fake news has been removed.   Don't call something fake news when it is not.  

 

[Basil B]

On 28/11/2017 at 12:56 PM, boomerangutang said:

 

 

....meaning eastern Europe, a.k.a. East Bloc, during Soviet times.  That part of the world also has the hardest drinkers of alcohol - not just for Europe, but worldwide.  Is there a connection?  I think so.  Alcohol is the drug of choice for seductions, whether agreed-upon or coerced/date-rape.  I'm not saying it's the only factor, ....but that it's a factor.

One good reason for getting out of Europe... 

[Credo]

1 hour ago, Basil B said:

One good reason for getting out of Europe... 

What a silly statement.   Do you really think that viruses pay attention to borders?