Bulletin of the World Health Organization: EU faces world's fastest growing HIV epidemic

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EU faces world's fastest growing HIV epidemic

Sarah Jane Marshall

Fledgling democracies in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union--ten of which are set to join the EU on 1 May--are facing the world's fastest growing HIV epidemic, warned the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in a new report released in Moscow on 17 February 2004.

The report was published ahead of a high-level meeting in Dublin on 23 February during which experts on HIV/ AIDS warned ministers from 55 countries in Europe and Central Asia that the region's rapidly accelerating HIV/AIDS epidemic could cripple Europe's economic and social development.

According to the ...