%0 Journal Article %A Martin C Donoghoe %A Jeffrey V Lazarus %A Srdan Matic %T HIV/AIDS in the transitional countries of eastern Europe and central Asia %D 2005 %R 10.7861/clinmedicine.5-5-487 %J Clinical Medicine %P 487-490 %V 5 %N 5 %X In the 1990s, HIV/AIDS became a major threat to health, economic stability and human development in countries in eastern Europe and central Asia. Social, political and economic transition exacerbated the structural conditions that allowed HIV/AIDS to flourish as dramatic changes led to increasing drug injection, economic decline and failing health and healthcare systems. There is a need to address the professional and ideological opposition - even in countries considered to be fully functioning democracies - to evidence-based public health interventions like harm reduction, coupled with treating HIV/AIDS for all those in need, if countries are to provide a more effective response. %U https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/clinmedicine/5/5/487.full.pdf