Recent trends in HIV in central and eastern Europe

A review in last week’s Lancet by Françoise Hamers and Angela Downs of the European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS (EuroHIV, www.eurohiv.org) described recent trends and differences between the HIV epidemics of central and eastern Europe (1). Published and unpublished data from the 27 countries of the former communist bloc were presented. This short article summarises their main findings and conclusions.