GENEVA, 28 Nov. - ( - The increase in diagnoses in 2023 is likely due in part to an increase in testing, but health authorities said more work is needed to contain HIV.

 

The number of new HIV diagnoses in Europe rose in 2023, and nearly every country reported cases, according to European health authorities.

 

Since the HIV/AIDS epidemic began in the early 1980s, more than 2.6 million people have been diagnosed with HIV infection – which spreads through unprotected sex, blood transfusions, sharing of needles, or from mother to infant – in the 53 countries that make up the World Health Organization’s (WHO) European region.

 

Still, there were 113,000 new HIV diagnoses in 47 European countries in 2023, a 2.4 per cent increase from 2022, according to the report from the WHO’s European office and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).   - (ANA) -

 

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