RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 HIV/AIDS in the transitional countries of eastern Europe and central Asia
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 487
OP 490
DO 10.7861/clinmedicine.5-5-487
VO 5
IS 5
A1 Martin C Donoghoe
A1 Jeffrey V Lazarus
A1 Srdan Matic
YR 2005
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/5/5/487.abstract
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.