To improve the understanding of experienced HIV stigma in the community, ECDC initiated an exploratory survey in 2021 to measure HIV-related stigma across Europe and Central Asia.
This evidence brief summarises the progress towards UN Sustainable Development Goal 3.3 to ‘eliminate the epidemic of AIDS’ in Europe and Central Asia.
Progress towards ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 is variable across the region, and most countries in Europe and Central Asia are currently far from achieving the 2025 targets.
Anthrax continues to be uncommon in humans in the EU/EEA, with only a few cases reported every year. For 2021, four confirmed anthrax cases were reported by Bulgaria (one case) and Spain (three cases). Among 30 reporting EU/EEA countries, 27 notified zero cases.
This document provides an update on the safety of substances of human origin (SoHO) in relation to COVID-19. It reassesses the risk and proposes revised mitigation measures for preventing transmission through SoHO.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 13-19 August and includes updates on avian influenza A(H5N6), avian influenza A(H9N2), West Nile virus, COVID-19, poliomyelitis, and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 6 - 12 August 2023 and includes updates on measles, COVID-19, swine flu, mpox, diphtheria, West Nile virus, avian influenza, dengue, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, and invasive meningococcal disease.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 30 July - 5 August 2023 and includes updates on avian influenza, botulism, echovirus, West Nile virus, COVID-19, and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever.