HIV care in Central and Eastern Europe: How close are we to the target?

Objectives: The aim of this survey was to describe the current status of HIV care in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and to investigate how close the region is to achieving the UNAIDS 2020 target of 90-90-90.

Methods: In 2014, data were collected from 24 Central and Eastern European countries using a 38-item questionnaire.

Results: All countries reported mandatory screening of blood and organ donors for HIV.

Tropical neuroinfections in south sudanese rural hospitals - analysis of 8,709 patients.

Objective: Infections involving the central nervous system have very serious consequences and affect thousands of people in Africa. Despite the availability of new antibiotics and vaccines, neuroinfections act as dangerous and life-threatening conditions. The most frequent neuroinfections which are of the greatest importance for public health systems are viral diseases (such as HIV, encephalitis, poliomyelitis, rabies), bacterial diseases (bacterial meningitis, neurological complications of leprosy and tuberculosis) and parasitic infections (cerebral malaria, sleeping sickness, trypanosomiasis, schistosomiasis, toxoplasmosis etc.