UPDATE ON HIV INFECTIONS IN ROMANIA

An interesting review on the history, particularities, and current state of the HIV infection in Romania was published in “Romanian Archives of Microbiology and Immunology”. HIV was first identified worldwide in the early 1980s, in Romania at the same time as the rest of the globe. It is well-known that the infection was transmitted primarily through sexual contact and infected blood, as well as perinatally. Mardarescu et al. bring forward the unique challenges that the Romanian health system is currently facing: “HIV infection in Romania has some particularities, such as the high number of HIV-infected patients under treatment and the high percentage of longterm survivors”.