This evidence-based guidance is designed to inform the development, monitoring and evaluation of national HIV testing strategies or programmes in the countries of the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). It is intended to complement the following existing guidance: Scaling up HIV testing ...

Since the spectrum of engagement in HIV care was first described in the United States, there has been a growing interest in the HIV continuum of care as a means of monitoring delivery of care for people living with HIV and assessing the extent to ...

Although HIV is preventable through effective public health measures, significant HIV transmission continues in Europe. In 2014, 142 197 people were newly diagnosed with HIV in 50 of the 53 countries of the WHO European Region. Of those, 56 945 were officially reported to the ...

Conclusions: HIV infection is of major public health importance in the EU/EEA, with no clear signs of overall decrease. During the past decade (2005-2014) there have been important epidemiological changes in HIV diagnoses in the EU/EEA: Sex between men accounted for the majority of cases diagnosed ...