Stop Global Aids

In spite of the fact that throughout the 1990's, due to the wars and conflicts in the regions of Central and Eastern Europe, the subject of HIV/AIDS was largely pushed to the margins of public interest, the social problems associated with it are slowly returning to our everyday lives. The spreading of HIV, although slowed down a notch, still goes on, despite the general silence that surrounds it. For that reason, we present to you an overview of the AIDS issue, but also of the latest developments and events in the field of the fight against that disease.

Twenty years after the first clinical diagnosis that confirmed that existence of the "acquired immune-deficiency syndrome" AIDS became on of the most dangerous diseases that humanity ever faced. Since the start of the epidemic, over 60 million people have been infected with the HIV, and HIV/AIDS have spread around to the effect that it became the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa. Globally, it holds the fourth place on the list of most common causes of death.

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16.07.2007 The Macedonian Harm Reduction Network (MHRN) claims that the Draft-Law on Control of Narcotics and Precursors is seriously defective and is opposed to the National Counternarcotics Strategy of December 2006 and the Constitution.

06.06.2007 The Legal team of Iskorak and Kontra associations demanded from Nenad Ljubicic, Minister of Health, to remove the provision in the Rulebook on Blood and Blood Serum that permanently eliminates homosexual persons from the possibility to donate blood and to replace the term homosexuals with the phrase “people with risky sexual behaviour”.

12.01.2007 With the aim to strengthen the fight against HIV/AIDS on the internet, the Iskorak Centre for Rights of Sexual and Gender Minorities established the AIDS.HR internet portal. Having in mind the general population in Croatia, the contents were adapted for average citizens, teen-agers, and other uneducated persons with proclivities towards risky behaviour.