AIDS

Statistics of the World Health Organization that there are approximately 60 millioninfected with the HIV, recorded since the onset of illness, and that the disease has wiped out nearly 30 million of them. In its annual report the United Nations announced that last year there were 1.5 million people living with HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, an increase of up to 250 percent since 2001.

It is noteworthy that most of the infections in Eastern Europe and in Russia and Ukraine, which contributed to prostitution and drug abuse exacerbate theproblem. The United Nations report, such as "World AIDS Day," which falls on Thursday (the first of December / December 2011).

In spite of that, the South-Saharan Africa bears the brunt of this disease, wherethe number of people living with HIV (the virus that) in that part of the world to nearly 22.9 million people, according to figures from last year, representingapproximately 68 percent of the total the world. Also, 80 percent of those infectedare women there. What is the outcome of the Eastern Mediterranean?Interviewed on the Deutsche Welle Office of the Spokesman for the Eastern Mediterranean Region of WHO