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On the occasion of World Hepatitis Day, ECDC launched online prevalence database for hepatitis B and C which included data mainly based on peer-reviewed cross sectional studies from 2006 onwards.

One in 2 people living with HIV are diagnosed late in the course of their infection. So late, that two out of three people with AIDS in the EU/EEA receive their diagnosis within only three months of discovering they had HIV. For World AIDS Day 2017, ECDC highlighted the problem of late diagnosis and the need for diversifying HIV testing approaches.

The theme of World Hepatitis Day 2017 was the elimination of viral hepatitis

World Tuberculosis Day - marked each year on 24 March - gives the occasion to raise awareness about TB and to advocate for efforts to eliminate it.

The goal: eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030

On the occasion of World AIDS Day, ECDC and the WHO Regional Office for Europe launched the latest surveillance data on HIV and AIDS in the European Region. 2015 theme: Sex between men is still main transmission mode

On the occasion of World AIDS Day, ECDC launched the latest surveillance data on HIV in the European Region. 2014 theme: 10 years of data show that Europe is not curbing the epidemic

​World Hepatitis Day is marked on 28 July each year to increase the awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis.

World AIDS Day was introduced by the World Health Organization in 1988 and is observed on 1 December each year to raise awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by HIV infection.

Marking World AIDS Day 2012, ECDC and the WHO Regional Office for Europe released their joint publication HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe 2011