EU pressed to do more to combat AIDS in Eastern Europe

Mario Raviglione, the director of the WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme, said in an interview in August 2013 that the EU’s policy towards its eastern neighbours should also include a plan of action against the diseases. AIDS death rates in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have soared in the last decade while the European Union continues to put the brunt of its funding for treatment and prevention in developing nations, according to experts who say this is creating a potential health timebomb on the EU’s eastern frontier.