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World AIDS Day: Bulgaria launches new campaign

Mon, Dec 01 2008 11:30 CET byClive Leviev-Sawyer 224 Views

A year-long campaign themed "every day is anti-AIDS day" is being launched in Bulgaria on December 1 2008, World AIDS Day.

The campaign is supported by the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and its aims include improving AIDS awareness among youth.

Bulgarian media reports ahead of World AIDS Day said that experts working in the field believed that AIDS was under-reported in the country. One of the reasons was that many people were not aware of their HIV status.

In an interview with Bulgarian news agency Focus, Dr Tonka Varleva, who represents the countries of Eastern Europe and central Asia on the management board of the Global Fund against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, said that in recent years Eastern Europe was the region was the highest increase in the rate of AIDS.

The number of people infected had reached 1.6 million in the region, she said. Estimates are that 30 million people worldwide have AIDS.

"What's worrying about our region is that 62 per cent of the newly-registered are in the group of intravenous drug addicts," Varleva said.

 

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