PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Martin C Donoghoe
AU  - Jeffrey V Lazarus
AU  - Srdan Matic
TI  - HIV/AIDS in the transitional countries of eastern Europe and central Asia
AID  - 10.7861/clinmedicine.5-5-487
DP  - 2005 Sep 01
TA  - Clinical Medicine
PG  - 487--490
VI  - 5
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/5/5/487.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/5/5/487.full
SO  - Clin Med2005 Sep 01; 5
AB  - 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.