HIV and hepatitis news from Rome, November 2014 Contents
·         European HIV response "falling behind" as Eastern European epidemic grows
·         Priorities for action
·         Can the 90 / 90 / 90 target be reached in the European region?
·         Need for improvements in testing and diagnosis
·         Tuberculosis epidemic in people living with HIV in Eastern Europe
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European HIV response "falling behind" as Eastern European epidemic grows HIV diagnoses have increased by 80% in the European region since 2004, and three-quarters of new HIV diagnoses in the European region are occurring in Eastern Europe, yet the scale and targeting of HIV prevention, testing and treatment in Eastern Europe are inadequate, a European meeting on standards of care for HIV and co-infections in Europe heard last week, in Rome.
The meeting, organised by the European AIDS Clinical Society, preceded a High-Level European Union Ministerial Meeting on HIV organised by the Italian Ministry of Health, designed to renew momentum on HIV among European Union policy makers ten years after the 2004 Dublin Declaration set out a framework for actions to tackle the growing epidemics in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
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