Episode 11 - Teymur Noori - World AIDS Day - Achieving Zero Deaths in Europe

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

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5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode we speak with Teymur Noori, HIV/AIDS expert at ECDC. Teymur explains what the HIV/AIDS situation looks like in Europe, which populations and regions are most affected, and what goals that have been set, and how to reach them.

Find out more via ecdc.europa.eu/en/hiv-infection-and-aids

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0:00.0	ECDC on air.
0:05.0	The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:09.0	Keeping up to date with European Epidemiology.
0:14.0	Hello and welcome to ECDC on Air.
0:17.0	Today is the annual World Age Day and we have TAMO Nauri with us who is an expert on HIV here at ECDC.
0:23.6	He's going to speak to us about the state of HIV AIDS in the world and in particularly in Europe.
0:28.6	We're going to take a closer look at how much progress has been done so far, what issues that Europe is facing
0:34.6	and what remains to be done in order to reach the ghost set.
0:38.3	So, hello, Tamor, welcome to ECDC on air.
0:55.0	Hi, Nicholas, thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be here today.
0:58.0	I wanted to start off just asking you, can you explain to our list of what you do at
1:04.0	ECDC and what's your background?
1:07.0	Yeah, yeah, sure. So I've been at DCCDC since 2007. I'm a trained psychologist. I studied in both Chicago and London and, yeah, a lot of insights around the behaviors around the transmission of HIV-N AIDS. That's why I got interested in this subject area. And then before starting at ECDC, I worked at the National Institute of Public Health in
1:30.6	Sweden, supporting them monitoring their HIV national action plans and, yeah, got recruited
1:37.7	in 2007, as I said, to ECDC to work around issues around monitoring and evaluation.
1:43.5	Can you explain to us what is the state of HIV AIDS right now in the world?
1:48.6	Yes, sure, of course.
1:50.2	So, well, globally, so this is data coming out from UN AIDS.
1:53.4	So basically, UN AIDS estimate that approximately 38 million people are living with HIV currently globally. And out of those,
2:04.8	approximately half of those live in sub-Saharan Africa, or rather in eastern and southern Africa.
2:13.4	20 million people were estimated to be living with HIV in southern Africa, followed by
2:18.9	Western and Central Africa and Asia and the Pacific.
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