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Aids: the HIV carrier criminals in Europe

('Hayley Worsley-Carter',) — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:00:00 -0000

In Scotland and Guyana Mark Devereaux and Alain Prosper respectively get ten years imprisonment. In France another man gets a five-year sentence, spending at least eighteen months behind bars. What do these criminals have in common?

Aids, Alzheimers, abortion: Europe's most shocking adverts

('Ellie Banks',) — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:31:20 -0000

From Spain and Italy's saucy adverts, via the UK and Germany's treatment of diseases, to Poland's nazi memories - a video tour of the banned adverts which most recently shocked modern European society

Highest European HIV rate Ukraine: threat of Lavra clinic closure

('Annie Rutherford',) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:00:00 -0000

1.6% of Ukraine's population are infected with HIV, though people ignore or remain silent about the problem. In Kiev one of the most important treatment centres for Aids patients is to be closed - in order to make place for a luxury hotel. The decision gave rise to protests and demonstrations across the country

Top tips from Parisian music festival Solidays

('Angela Therain',) — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:00:00 -0000

A few glimpses dedicated to the 168 000 public that attended Solidays – the second biggest music festival in France after les Vieilles Charrues – and without whom the festival would be just another line up of stars

Generation(s) AIDS

('Helen Swain',) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:00:00 -0000

As World Aids day is marked on 1 December, it's an opportunity to think of the human immunodeficiency virus, aka HIV, an illness that has killed more than 25 million individuals in less than thirty years

Immunologist Norbert Gualde: don't throw a swine flu party just yet

('Martyn Hawkins',) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:00:00 -0000

Rumours of a new way to deal with 2009's global epidemic broke out in the UK in July. The idea is crazy; catch the Influenza A (H1N1) virus and make antibodies before it becomes more virulent. A note of warning

Risk factor 'boomtown'

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0000

Liberal reforms over the past decade have catapulted Estonia into one of the fastest-growing market economies of the European Union. But can the Baltic tiger keep up on the social agenda?

Pink revolution

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:00:00 -0000

Over 200,000 people flooded Independence Square on 16 June to see British singer Elton John's AIDS-awareness free concert - publicising a dark aspect of Ukrainian society, with estimated adult HIV prevalence of 1.4%

AIDS - Europe’s dirty secret

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:00:00 -0000

Europe’s population becomes more complacent, and HIV cases steadily rise as a new regional survey reveals worrying levels of ignorance about the basic facts

Prostitution and AIDS: undercover and out of sight

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:00:00 -0000

Prostitutes marched through Paris to denounce the impact of the street-walking ban on AIDS prevention