Public health: prevention of AIDS and other communicable diseases, Community action programme 1996-2000
1994/0222(COD)
1) OBJECTIVE
Implementation of a Community action programme on the prevention
of AIDS and other communicable diseases.
2) CONTENTS
1. Period covered by the action: 1995-1999.
2. Action relating to HIV/AIDS and STD:
* The purpose of collecting information, in conjunction with the
Member States, is to seek out ways of enhancing and improving
data on AIDS and HIV within the Community and to provide
support in order to strengthen the work of the national
epidemiological monitoring systems and the European Centre for
the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS. This collection of
information is also designed to analyse and disseminate
information on preventive measures and the knowledge, attitudes
and behaviour of the general public and certain target groups;
* measures targeted at children and young people:
Promotion of action to ascertain and disseminate information
about children's and young people's knowledge, attitudes and
behaviour in relation to HIV/AIDS and STDs. Prevention of AIDS
and STD transmission implies studies and exchanges of
information on the problems connected with high-risk groups
(drug users, prostitutes, homosexuals and bisexuals), on high
-risk situations (migrant populations and frontier regions,
prisons and detention centres) and modes of transmission.
* Social and psychological assistance and combating
discrimination involve exchanges of experience and information
concerning ways and means of providing assistance and support,
including the difficulties encountered by families with
infected members, and concerning policies and practices on
screening and situations of discrimination.
3.Specific Community measures for certain communicable diseases.
These measures include actions related to vaccination, the
creation and development of monitoring networks and dissemination
of epidemiological data, information, education and training and
drives to achieve early detection and systematic screening.
4. Financial impact: ECU 50 million for the period 1995-1999.
Source : Commission Européenne - Info92 - 12/95�