Hepatitis, HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhea remain major challenges for health systems in Europe.
Although these diseases are avoidable, they led to numerous diseases and nearly 57,000 deaths in the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA) annually, according to the EU Health Authority ECDC based in Stockholm.
The new report from the authority shows that most countries run the risk of the goals not to be achieved by 2030, or that they do not have enough data to measure their progress.
“Diseases Avoidable”
ECDC director Pamela Rendi-Wagner: “These diseases are avoidable, just like the stress they represent for health care, patients and their families. We have five years to act; we have to use them.”
- According to the ECDC report, the estimated incidence of HIV and TB decreased during the research period, but it is above the value for 2025.
- There are no figures for viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections, but the number of diagnoses of gonorrhea, syphilis and acute hepatitis B has increased in many EU and EEA countries.
- The increase in the newly reported gonorrhoe cases was the strongest number that has been highest since 2009.
Progress has been made in the field of prevention of diseases, but here too the goals were missed for 2025 according to the ECDC.
Protection against potential diseases
The particularly effective prevention measures include the use of condoms, programs that enable the exchange of old spraying against new, hepatitis-B vaccinations and the so-called pre-blot statement prophylaxis (prep) that should protect people with an increased risk of infection against HIV infection.
Source: Krone
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