AIDS remains a threat in Europe

Fernando Câncio fears a slackening of preventative behaviour facing the AIDS epidemic in developed countries. "The consequences of this attitude can be seen in the most recent UNAIDS report. Whereas in Sub-Saharan Africa there is an emergent stability noticeable in countries that invested in the promotion of the use of condoms and sexual education (following the example of Brazil in South America), there is in Western Europe and in the United States, an explosive cocktail of pseudo-sophistication, fool-hardiness, ill-founded ideas - with a notion that AIDS is a chronic illness that you do not die from - is posing the threat of the Pandemic's return. The exponential increase of HIV cases diagnosed in all Europe (over 68% in our country between 2001 and 2006) among men who sleep with men is an illustration of this 'relaxed' attitude to HIV ...".

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