World Aids Day takes place on 1 December, with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) continuing to be a major global public health issue. So far, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (Aids), the most advanced stage of HIV infection, has claimed a total of 39 million lives, and an estimated 1.5 million people died from HIV-related illnesses in 2013.
If you look at HIV infections by region, while there has been a slight reduction in HIV in countries like Israel, for the most part, infections are on the rise in the European Union, North America, North Africa and the Middle East. Vytenis Andriukaitis, the Commissioner for Health and Food Safety with the European Commission, said on Thursday (27 November) at an HIV/Aids ministerial conference in Rome: “Despite considerable progress in the fight against the HIV/Aids, it continues to cause much suffering to people in Europe and around the world.

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