Aids
Patient patients in Europe: kid gloves come off
4% of Europeans received medical treatment in another member state in 2006-2007, according to Eurobarometer, and 1% of public healthcare budgets (10 billion euros) a year is spent on cross-border healthcare. There are no EU laws on European patients rights in general though. From dying in Slovenia to migrating doctors via France and Romania, to the HIV virus which has pinned an era in health, a look at some of the medical topics affecting young Europeans today, featuring three finalists of the second EU health prize for journalists
- Read the special edition Patient patients in Europe: kid gloves come off
- Sweden and Norway are anti-junk food leaders
- Medicine’s new dot-com revolution
- Where did all the Romanian doctors and French med students go?
- Preparing to die in Slovenia’s first hospice institution
- Aids: the HIV carrier criminals in Europe
World Aids day 2010: the 'plastic' pope has spoken
Condoms aren't bad for your health! Clear the ship for action, because we've still a long way to go. More than 41 million people have the HIV virus or Aids, which counts around 800, 000 people in Europe. To mark world aids day on 1 December in the UK, crooner Elton John has become editor for the day for The Independent. But whilst he's been known for his brash concerts in the Ukraine in the past, that country is seeing its own clinics being closed down. Prudence, because younger generations are less interested in plastic than news of when a virus kills en masse. Is the fashionable lack of protection the problem? One thing is sure; despite all the treatments, being HIV positive in 2010 is still no sinecure. Read the cafebabel.com archives before you feel the love tonight (Pictured, life through a condom lens, Image 'Mary Soaking' by (cc) Lomo-Cam/ Flickr)
Aids, Alzheimers, abortion: Europe's most shocking adverts
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
aids, italy, rocco siffredi, united kingdom, advertising, germany, sex
Top tips from Parisian music festival Solidays
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
aids, music, paris, culture calendar, nicolas sarkozy, silvio berlusconi, dance
Immunologist Norbert Gualde: don't throw a swine flu party just yet
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
aids, health, interview, public health, science, swine flu, sars, tuberculosis, malaria, spanish flu, society
Risk factor 'boomtown'
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?
aids, economy, labour, estonia, central and eastern europe, development, society
Prostitution and AIDS: undercover and out of sight
Prostitutes marched through Paris to denounce the impact of the street-walking ban on AIDS prevention
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