Eastern Europe, Central Asia Witness Fastest Spread of HIV:UNICEF

Eastern Europe and Central Asia are witnessing the fastest spread of the HIV virus in the world with more than 8o% of the infected under 30 years of age, according to a UNICEF report. "Eastern Europe and Central Asia are the only parts of the world where the HIV epidemic remains clearly on the rise," it said in a report published Monday at the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna. In parts of Russia, the rate of HIV infections has gone up by 700 percent since 20...