HIV Cases Rise in Europe

Very interesting article here. FYI, Estonia is the new capital of the Rave and club scene. People travel there from all over the world to dance all night and "hook up" with members of the same sex, opposite sex, and anything in between. Obvious correlations.

Rise in HIV/Aids cases in Europe

                                                                                    

Cases of HIV are rising in Europe

The rate of new cases of HIV/Aids in the European Union has almost doubled since 1999, a report shows.

Estonia has by far the highest rate of diagnosis, followed by Portugal and the UK, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.

The ECDC says that the proportion of new cases reported per million inhabitants went up across the EU from 28.8 to 57.5 in 2006.

In Estonia, the rate last year reached 504 per million people.

Estonia epidemic

The Estonian government says that, six years ago, 90% of new HIV cases diagnosed by Aids consultation clinics involved drug users who were injecting, but that proportion fell to below half by the end of last year.

It suggests that the virus has started to spread from drug users to their sexual partners. Read the rest of the BBC article here.

Comments

[Carl Holmes]

I know that Ukraine is not Estonia, but this is a similar correlation.

when we were in Ukraine together in 2003 I remember walking by a very busy night club in Ukraine and asking myself how long it would take for "westen ills" such as AIDS to reach them. I am sure it was there in 03, but now it will be an epidemic in no time if someone does not show them that there is a God, there is a way to live and here is how you can do it.