Gestor bibliográfico Crisis y Salud

Evangelos Alexopoulos (Sept 28, p 1095)1 questioned the validity of HIV surveillance data in an outbreak of HIV in injecting drug users (IDUs) in Athens, Greece. This outbreak, first reported in 2011,2 has continued in 2013 with nearly 1000 new HIV cases reported during this period in IDUs. In an in-depth assessment of the situation of HIV in Greece, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control found the HIV surveillance system of the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention to be functioning well, with adequate mechanisms in place to identify unique new cases and to exclude duplicates from surveillance reports.