Prevention campaigns, more funds to research, reducing the price of drugs: these are three of the requests that Strasbourg’s Parliament submitted to the EU to "continue the fight against Aids" 25 years after the discovery of the disease. Today, Parliament approved the report of Georgs Andrejevs, a MEP from Latvia, according to which in the 27 member states "the number of infected people is increasing". This is why Parliament is asking "that reliable data be collected and prevention measures be targeted to at-risk groups". Then there’s the need to "support information campaigns and promote sex education in schools". But the text also says that "the use of condoms, drug replacement treatments, access to clinical tests on a voluntary basis, the exchange of clean needles and syringes must be encouraged as well". According to the data announced by Andrejevs, nearly 40 million people across the world "live with Hiv, while 4.3 million people were infected in 2006". And then: "95% of the Hiv/Aids population live in developing countries", but reports from EuroHiv and Unaids confirm that the number of affected people "keeps rising in Europe"; between 1998 and 2005, over 215 thousand people caught the infection.
