HIV infections across Europe have increased by eight per cent, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has warned.
Some 131,000 people contracted HIV in Europe and nearby countries in 2012, marking an eight per cent rise from a year earlier.
Countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia saw what the World Health Organisation (WHO) has described as a “steady increase” of nine per cent in infections. More than half of the cases - 76,000 – from this region were reported in Russia alone.
From Independent
