Press Release: AIDS threat growing throughout Europe

AIDS is rapidly spreading in Eastern Europe and is on the rise again in Western Europe because integrated prevention and treatment programmes have not been sustained or do not exist. Countries in Eastern Europe, home to the fastest-growing epidemic in the world, will soon be on Europe's borders following the European Union's enlargement on 1 May 2004. The Baltic States, which will soon be part of the EU, are also experiencing a rapid rise in HIV infections. UN, World Bank and Global Fund call on European Ministers to scale up HIV prevention and treatment programmes

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