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# 41989X0203

**Conclusions of the Council and the Ministers for Health of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on 15 December 1988 concerning AIDS** 
  
*Official Journal C 028 , 03/02/1989 P. 0001 - 0001*

  

CONCLUSIONS of the Council and the Ministers for Health of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on 15 December 1988 concerning AIDS (89/C 28/01)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND THE MINISTERS FOR HEALTH OF THE MEMBER STATES, MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL, 1. agree to improve and extend the current system for the rapid and periodic exchange of epidemiological data at Community level on cases of AIDS: - by stepping up the work of the ad hoc Working Party on AIDS, with the participation of the Commission, and the collaborating centre of the World Health Organization in Paris, with a view to guaranteeing the quality and comparability of the epidemiological data,

- while continuing to study the necessity and advantages of an exchange of specific epidemiological data which are as detailed as possible, such exchange affording guarantees for the protection of anonymity and of confidentiality,

- and including, in the exchange of data, information based on agreed criteria which will make it easier to assess the effectiveness of the preventive measures taken in the Member States and which will provide an early indication of the development of epidemiological patterns and trends (such as, for instance, rates of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, notification rates for sexually transmitted diseases, changes in sexual behaviour, etc.);

2. agree on the need to intensify efforts, especially through outreach programmes based on one-to-one counselling and support measures, to reduce the risk of HIV transmission amongst and from drug addicts. Such measures may include education and advertising campaigns, help and advisory services readily accessible to drug addicts, and access to sterile syringes and needles for drug addicts;

3. agree on the need for firms to prepare themselves to deal with the problem of AIDS in an appropriate and sensible manner which takes account of the fact that, in working relations and working contacts, there is no risk of infection, in accordance with the specific conclusions adopted simultaneously on this subject (1);

4. emphasize their interest in exchanges between Member States of qualified personnel, with experience in combating AIDS, and call upon the Commission to study possibilities of facilitating such exchanges;

5. instruct the ad hoc Working Party to continue its work in the fields referred to above, with the participation of the Commission, in accordance with the conclusions of the Council and the representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, of 15 May 1987 and 31 May 1988, concerning AIDS (2).

(1) See p. 2 of this Official Journal. (2) OJ No C 178, 7.7.1987, p. 1, and OJ No C 197, 27.7.1988, p. 8.

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