RAA Foundation launches the results of Surveillance Survey on HIV Behavioral Risk of Transmissio among Young People Living with HIV/AIDS in Romania (Report)
October 21st,2009
Today, October 21st, Romanian Angel Appeal Foundation (RAA) launches the National Research "The investigation on HIV risk behavior among youngsters who live with HIV/SIDA in Romania" (click on the title for download-in Romanian)
In press release (in Romanian) issued today, it is stated that the research was elaborated on a representative pattern that included 595 HIV positive youngsters national wide aged between 18 and 24.
The research's results analyzed together with other available data lead to the same conclusion, respectively that there is a potential risk, of a significant importance, that HIV will become in the nearest future a recrudescent infection in Romania: on the one hand, there is an important basin of infection that is insufficient controlled and magnified by a discriminatory attitude towards people living with HIV/AIDS.
On the other hand, as youngsters are correctly being considered a risk group does not posses the necessary information to prevent and is not aware of the real dimensions of the HIV infection.
Based on the research's results, the RAA Foundation highlights once again the necessity of having a political and economical support for interventions and measures that can have a great contribution to avoiding the second wave of HIV infection in Romania in the following years.
You can study the Summary of this research including the conclusions and recommendation in the Resources - Reports and Researches category. <http://www.fondulglobal.ro/resurse/rapoarte-si-studii/
