HIV/AIDS in Europe: concern and optimism in the face of continual threat

The HIV/AIDS Surveillance in Europe mid-year report 2002 published by the European centre for the epidemiological monitoring of AIDS (EuroHIV, http://www.eurohiv.org) clearly illustrates that the HIV/AIDS epidemic affecting the World Health Organization European region consists of a multitude of diverse epidemics differing in time, place, person, and severity (1).