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Latest update on drug-related infectious diseases in Europe

28.06.2019
The EMCDDA has published today its latest update on Drug-related infectious diseases in Europe for the period to February 2019. The publication provides an overview of the most recent infectious disease surveillance...
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Preventing blood-borne viruses in prison settings: ECDC and EMCDDA guidance

23.07.2018
People in prison experience a higher burden of communicable diseases such as hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV often linked to a history of injecting drug use. In addition, incarceration...
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Reversing the HIV epidemic: Europe needs to scale-up prevention, testing and treatment

31.01.2017
HIV experts from across the EU will discuss how to reverse the HIV trend and to prepare Europe to achieve the set target of ending AIDS by 2030.
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Maltese EU Presidency and ECDC conference: Fast-track the end of AIDS in the EU

30.01.2017
EMCDDA Director Alexis Goosdeel is in Malta today where he will speak at the opening session of a two-day conference on HIV, co-organised by the Maltese EU Presidency and the European Centre...
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Preliminary data suggest no signs of a slowing down in 2012

15.11.2012
In 2011, the EMCDDA and ECDC reported that new outbreaks of HIV were occurring in Greece and Romania despite an overall long-term declining trend in newly diagnosed HIV cases among injecting drug...
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Update — risk of HIV outbreaks among drug injectors in the EU

14.11.2011
Over the last decade, gains have been made within the EU in addressing HIV infection among injecting drug users — these include a greater availability of prevention, treatment and harm-reduction measures. Other...
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Drug injecting has a disproportionate impact on public health

19.07.2002
Drug injecting is rare and stigmatised by the public and, on the whole, by drug users themselves. But, despite this, it accounts for most of the severe health consequences of drug use...
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