Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to FF Hamers.
AIDS case reporting has been an essential tool for monitoring HIV infection in western Europe. Recent trends in AIDS have been affected by improved antiretroviral treatments that delay HIV disease progression, however, and no longer serve as indicators of
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Europe is now at an important turning point. In western Europe, AIDS incidence has been declining since 1996, partly as a result of new, more effective treatment of HIV infections. As these treatments delay the progression of HIV
In 1996, 24 920 AIDS cases were reported in the WHO European Region, bringing the cumulative total to 185 808 cases including 6969 (4%) paediatric cases (<13 years). For the first time since the start of the epidemic, the annual number of cases reported d
The HIV/AIDS pandemic is primarily caused by HIV-1. Another type of virus, HIV-2, is found mainly in certain West African countries In Europe, most of the cases of HIV-2 infection described have been in people from Africa. The objective of this study was