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This year, when Latvia is celebrating its year anniversary, we need to be united, instead everything is done to divide us. Parliament just sent a clear message that not everyone is equal and thousands of families do not belong in this country. It is incredibly disappointing to see that the parliament of Latvia rejected the initiative for partnership legislation for ALL families despite over 10, citizens expressing their support for it. Search form. Home Stay informed Media centre Contact. Anti-discrimination Protocol comes into force, but many European states delay its ratification Anti-discrimination law updated — great step forward in Bosnia and Herzegovina Are you Giving4Equality this week?
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Then we need your help! On the occasion of International Human Rights Day Team Juncker sets to work: what can we expect and hope for? He explained that Latvia now has a double epidemic - the growing number of drug addicts being the first wave, and the spread of HIV infections the second. During the third wave the infection will expand from drug users to the general public because HIV-positive incidence is very high among people using drugs.
According to official statistics 10 percent to 20 percent of Latvia's intravenous drug users are HIV-infected, but the Western European experience indicates that this rate may reach as high as 60 percent. About 40 percent of drug users are under 19 years old. Experience shows that HIV starts spreading rapidly as soon as the virus reaches the community of intra-venous drug addicts.
Arch Sex Behav. Retrieved 4 February One of the Slavic men then sucker-punched Singh in the head. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. In Latvia this happened in and the number of HIV infections in the country has been climbing fast ever since.
In Latvia this happened in and the number of HIV infections in the country has been climbing fast ever since. For more than 80 people the source of infection has not been identified. In the first 10 months of a total of 77 underage HIV-infected persons have been registered in Latvia, of whom 73 are aged 16 to 18 years, mostly males.
Two of the underage HIV carriers are 15 years old. The number of HIV infected inmates in Latvia has increased as well, from in mid-summer to currently. Most of them are intravenous drug addicts. Latvian prison admi-nistration chief Vitolds Zahars attributed the sharp growth in the number of HIV carriers among inmates to the rapid expansion of the disease in the country in general saying "prison is the dirty mirror of society.

They are undergoing treatment. HIV carriers in Latvian jails aren't separated from other inmates in accordance with world practice since separation of the infected persons would be a violation of their human rights, explained Zahars. Zahars admitted that in a closed territory like a jail infection may spread but stressed that prison staff are doing their best to avert further spread of the disease.
The highest number of HIV carriers is in Riga, at , followed by the western Latvian port town of Ventspils, with 40 HIV infected persons, and the seaside-resort town of Jurmala, with Am J Med. Download references. Correspondence to I. De Ryck or R. Reprints and Permissions. De Ryck, I. AIDS Behav 16, — Download citation. Published : 26 June Issue Date : January Search SpringerLink Search.
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