The European Antibiotic Awareness Day is an annual European public health initiative that takes place to raise awareness about the threat to public health of antibiotic resistance, and to advocate prudent antibiotic use, not only amongst health-care providers who prescribe…
The Fleming Museum of Contemporary Science
Image 1: The Fleming Museum in Vari, Attica The Fleming Museum of Contemporary Science is housed in the Biomedical Sciences Research Center ‘Alexander Fleming’ (BSRC Fleming) in Vari, Attica. The core of the museum is Alexander Fleming’s original, archived…
Hellenic non-governmental organizations and associations for cancer
With World Cancer Day taking place every year on 4 February, we have decided to include, in the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (HCDCP) monthly newsletter, all non-governmental organizations (NGO) and associations, operating within our country’s borders, concerned…
My Life in Red: Living with AIDS
They loved and were loved … They made friends, lost comrades … Living with the guilty ‘secret’, AIDS. Anxiety, anger, fear, isolation and hope. Hope for life, companionship, love, understanding and struggle against prejudice, ignorance and rejection. This book is…
Halfway House for HIV indigent adults
’A house with a heart’ The Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (HCDCP), along with the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, has collaborated over the past year on what is perhaps the most important attempt in Greece…
Screening of the film Positive Stories
This film was created with the support of the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (HCDCP) and the Hellenic Association for the Study and Control of AIDS and was screened from Friday 25 November to Thursday 1 December 2011…
Office for Viral Hepatitis
Chronic viral hepatitis caused by hepatitis B and C viruses constitutes a major problem for world-wide public health. Viral hepatitis B and C: a) affect a large part of the population b) are transferred from person to person c) are…