TY - JOUR T1 - HIV/AIDS in the transitional countries of eastern Europe and central Asia JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 487 LP - 490 DO - 10.7861/clinmedicine.5-5-487 VL - 5 IS - 5 AU - Martin C Donoghoe AU - Jeffrey V Lazarus AU - Srdan Matic Y1 - 2005/09/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/5/5/487.abstract N2 - 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. ER -