title: HIV/AIDS in the transitional countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Sexually Transmitted Infections/HIV/AIDS Programme, World Health Organization Regional office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Martin C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Donoghoe
authors.forename: Jeffrey V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Lazarus
authors.forename: Srdan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matic
mesh_terms: D001209:Asia, Central / Q000453:epidemiology; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D003709:Democracy; D004467:Economics; D005061:Europe, Eastern / Q000453:epidemiology; D005544:Forecasting; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D011634:Public Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012924:Social Conditions