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Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 2000;284:3113-3114.

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The number of new cases of HIV infection is soaring in Eastern Europe, according to a report released late last month by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization.

"In Eastern Europe, what we had feared and predicted is now happening, and that is an explosion of HIV," said Peter Piot, MD, executive director of UNAIDS, at a press briefing on the new report. "The figures are really alarming."

Some 700 000 people in Eastern Europe are living with HIV, compared with 420 000 only a year ago, according to the annual report, AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2000. Some areas, such as the Russian Federation and Estonia, reported far more cases for 2000 than in any previous year. "Most of these new infections are among injecting drug users [IDUs]," noted Piot. In many former Soviet bloc countries, increased poverty, unemployment, an ailing . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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