Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 11, Issue 47, 23 November 2006

There are an estimated 740 000 people living with HIV or AIDS in western and central Europe today, and 1.7 million in the neighbouring countries of eastern Europe and Central Asia

Transmission of HIV in injecting drug users continues in some countries of the European Union, despite the wide implementation of harm reduction measures such as substitution treatment and needle and syringe programmes.

A quadrivalent vaccine against human papillomavirus types 16, 18, 6 and 11, known as Gardasil was granted a marketing license by the European Commission in September 2006

The Food Standards Agency for the United Kingdom has published its findings of a survey of salmonella contamination in eggs produced outside the UK and on retail sale in England