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Health Ministry launches project to stop HIV infection spreading
Belgrade,
27 November 2007
Serbian Minister of Health Tomica Milosavljevic said that this Ministry, in order to stop further spreading of HIV infection and to provide care and support to people living with HIV or AIDS, launched a project in June this year which is to be completed by May 2012.
Tomica Milosavljevic
Author:
Fonet
Milosavljevic told a press conference at the Tanjug press centre on the occasion of December 1, the World AIDS Day, that the project is focused on risk groups deterimend by poverty, margnilasiation and practice of risky behaviour.
The groups include intravenous drug addicts, men having sex with men, sex workers, young Roma and other margnalised groups, including prisoners, children and youth in institutions of social care, underage children having problems with law, children without parental care and persons living with HIV/AIDS.
According to him, in November 2006 the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria approved a donation of nearly $12.2 million to Serbia for a five-year long project.
Epidemiologist from the Inistute for Public Health "Dr Milan Jovanovic-Batut" Danijela Simic said that since 1985 until novembar 20 this year the number of registered HIV+ persons was 2,178, 1,381 of whom already suffer from AIDS while 917 died.
Simic noted that most HIV+ cases are registered at the age from 25 to 39, while the number of infected, sick and dead men is three times larger when compared with women.
The World AIDS Day is being held this year under the slogan "Take the Responsiblity".
The groups include intravenous drug addicts, men having sex with men, sex workers, young Roma and other margnalised groups, including prisoners, children and youth in institutions of social care, underage children having problems with law, children without parental care and persons living with HIV/AIDS.
According to him, in November 2006 the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria approved a donation of nearly $12.2 million to Serbia for a five-year long project.
Epidemiologist from the Inistute for Public Health "Dr Milan Jovanovic-Batut" Danijela Simic said that since 1985 until novembar 20 this year the number of registered HIV+ persons was 2,178, 1,381 of whom already suffer from AIDS while 917 died.
Simic noted that most HIV+ cases are registered at the age from 25 to 39, while the number of infected, sick and dead men is three times larger when compared with women.
The World AIDS Day is being held this year under the slogan "Take the Responsiblity".
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