Eurosurveillance
Volume 19, Issue 47, 27 November 2014
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/Public/Articles/Archives.aspx?PublicationId=11678

Editorials
Death from AIDS is preventable, so why are people still dying of AIDS in Europe?
V Delpech, J Lundgren2
Public Health England, London, United Kingdom
Department of Infectious Diseases, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Excerpt
It is almost two decades since life-saving treatment for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) became available. Life expectancy among people living with HIV, for whom optimal therapy is initiated timely, is now close to that of the general population [1]. Despite this, an estimated 1.6 million people died from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related illnesses globally in 2012, and the number who died within the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region reached almost 100,000 [2]. A large proportion of these deaths occur in the eastern part of the Region, and without changes in the HIV response, the death toll in this region is likely to continue to increase in the coming years [3]. Conversely, in the west, the risk of AIDS-related death continues to decline [3], reflecting some positive progress…