Right to health, right to life – HIV and human rights
By Henning Mikkelsen, EU Liaison Officer, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
In Europe the number of people living with HIV is steadily growing, now reaching a total of 2.3 million. The number of new HIV infections is still rising, especially in neighbouring countries.
Today very few people are dying from AIDS in EU countries where effective treatment is widely available. In countries neighbouring the EU, however, the death toll related to AIDS keeps rising - in 2011 it reached 92,000 deaths.
Across the region, specific populations such as men who have sex with men and people who inject drugs remain disproportionately affected by a high prevalence of HIV. Sti
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