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• The fight continues

  Public perception of HIV/AIDS has shifted, and the disease is no longer always fatal, but that has also led to complacency and a lack of funding.
  

• A worrying increase in infections

  HIV infection rates in Europe remain low by global standards, but there has been an alarming growth in eastern Europe in the past decade.
  

• No sex education, please, we're Italian

  Sex-education programmes are controversial, and some countries do not even teach the subject.
  

• Denied access to drugs

  Europe lags far behind the United States when it comes to developing drugs to combat HIV and AIDS, and in some parts of Europe access to drugs can be worse than in sub-Saharan Africa.
  

• A controversial change of focus

  Many donors are making the switch from disease-specific funding to general health funding, a move that some campaigners fear will cost lives.
  

HIV/AIDS

In the three decades since acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) emerged as a public-health issue, the illness has changed face several times.

A worrying increase in infections

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