| "Serbia winning battle against AIDS" |
| 15 May 2008 | 15:07
| Source:
Tanjug |
BELGRADE --
The number of AIDS patients and people dying of AIDS in Serbia is leveling out thanks to preventive measures that have been taken, says the health minister.
 | Tomica Milosavljević, right, at today's conference (Beta)
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“We have good results that we can be happy with,” Tomica Milosavljević told a press conference today.
Stressing that universal access to free therapy had been ensured, he warned that only four percent of the population had taken an AIDS test.
Milosavljević said that World AIDS Day, established in San Francisco in May 1983, would be marked on Sunday, May 18 with a series of activities.
UNICEF Director for Serbia Judith Reichenberg, chairing a UN thematic group on HIV/AIDS, said that there were some 33 million AIDS sufferers around the world, including around two million children under the age of 15.
She said that AIDS could be prevented and treated, and highlighted the problems of discrimination towards AIDS sufferers, as well as the need for joint action by all sections of society in battling the disease.
President of the Belgrade Center for Human Rights Miloš Stojković supported the adoption of a law against the discrimination of AIDS patients, reiterating that two such proposals had come before the old parliament.
Since 1985, according to information from the competent institutions, 1,398 persons in Serbia have been infected with the AIDS virus, of whom 923 have died, while last year, 42 people became infected, and 18 died.
In October of last year the Global Fund for HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria adopted a five-year project for Serbia, allocating the Serbian Health Ministry EUR 9.5mn.
World AIDS Day commemorations in Belgrade will be attended by several Eurovision Song Contest competitors, it was stated at the press conference.
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