Data from 23 European countries show that the annual number of HIV diagnoses in men who have sex with men (MSM) increased by 86% between 2000 and 2006. This paper reports the main preliminary results of a bio-behavioural survey in MSM with a specific focus on HIV prevalence and use of United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) indicators in six cities in Southern and Eastern Europ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Erasmus exchange of students at the University of Ljubljana, Department of family medicine in the period from 2005 to 2010. The beginnings of an Erasmus exchange in the field of family medicine in Europe are described. Ljubljana Medical School has currently 60 bilateral agreements with universities or medical faculties in the EU and EFTA cou...

BACKGROUND Many European citizens are seeking complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). These treatments are regulated very differently in the EU/EFTA countries. This may demonstrate differences in how risk associated with the use of CAM is perceived. Since most CAM treatments are practiced fairly similarly across Europe, differing risk understandings may influence patient safety for Europe...

It has been suggested in recent years that EU policies towards Northern Europe could serve as a potential model for the EU’s relations with its other neighbours. This paper focuses on two particular EU policies towards non-EU members in Northern Europe: the Northern Dimension (ND) initiative and the European Economic Area (EEA), which are analysed in light of two broader themes: first, how the ...

Sir, On the occasion of the car-free day, the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat) released some interesting data regarding passenger cars and road accident deaths in the European Union (EU) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries. According to those statistics, more than 43 000 European citizens died as a result of road accidents in 2004. Despite the fact ...

The information contained in this publication does not necessarily reflect the position or opinion of the European Commission This publication is supported for under the European Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity (2007-2013). This programme is managed by the Directorate-General for Employment, social affairs and equal opportunities of the European Commission. It was estab...

Benchmarking of web accessibility is performed throughout Europe, to assess and raise awareness of web accessibility. The evaluation is often based on manual assessments with a high cost and with long intervals. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines from W3C/WAI are the basis of most evaluations. Although the same guidelines are used, a range of different evaluation methodologies and scoring...

Framework Action Plan to fight tuberculosis in the European Union 2 PREFACE The European Union's (EU) Health Commissioner, Markos Kyprianou, called on the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in March 2007 to develop a proposal for an action plan to fight tuberculosis (TB) in the EU 1. This initiative reflects the priority given to TB in the EU where this disease is a conti...

This paper presents the CEN Workshop "Multilingual Catalogue strategies for eCommerce and eBusiness" (CEN/ISSS Workshop eCAT). The eCAT Workshop aims at formulating a strategy for establishing a harmonised methodology for multilingual e-catalogues, and for implementing this methodology in a future full scale project on e-catalogues. The Workshop will not only lay the basis for a future implemen...