HIV/AIDS in Europe : moving from death sentence to chronic disease management

HIV/AIDS in Europe : moving from death sentence to chronic disease management /

In Europe today, HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care are needed more than ever. HIV incidence steady in western and central Europe, and dramatically increasing in eastern Europe remains a major challenge to public health in the 21st century. With more than two million people living with HIV/AIDS...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Donoghoe, Martin C., Lazarus, Jeffrey V., Matic, Srdan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Copenhagen, Denmark : World Health Organization Europe, 2006
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Treatment > Europe.
AIDS (Disease) > Europe > Prevention.
HIV infections > Treatment > Europe.
HIV infections > Europe > Prevention.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • HIV/AIDS IN EUROPE; Contents; List of abbreviations; Country group designations within the WHO European Region; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Providing treatment, preventing transmission: the challenge of HIV/AIDS in Europe today; 1. Twenty-. ve years of HIV/AIDS in Europe; 2. Empowering people living with HIV in Europe: manifesto, mantra or mirage?; 3. Illicit drug policies and their impact on the HIV epidemic in Europe; 4. Injecting drug use, harm reduction and HIV/AIDS; 5. Silence still = death: 25 years of HIV/AIDS in prisons.

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