Bulgaria marks World AIDS Day with a number of initiatives. World AIDS Day has been held since 1988 on the initiative of the World Health Organization. It aims to raise awareness of the Aids pandemic caused by the HIV infection and adress the HIV-related stigma.
228 new HIV-positive persons have been registered in Bulgaria since the beginning of 2023. From 1986 until November 24, 2023, a total of 4,276 people with HIV infection have been registered in the country. The number of newly registered infections is several fold higher among men than women, a tendency that has prevailed over the years. 90.8% of all new cases are the result of a sexual contact. The majority of the new HIV infections are predominantly in big cities- Sofia, Varna, Plovdiv, Burgas, the Regional Health Inspectorate-Kyustendil announced.
Reactor No. 6 of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant was reconnected to the national electricity system at 9 AM on 8 July. The reactor was disconnected on 15 June for planned preventive maintenance of the functioning of a non-nuclear transformer and a..
People in Bulgaria are well aware of the causes and the consequences of climate change, but are uninformed as to the ways to tackle it, indicate data from the latest 6 th climate survey by the European Investment Bank. The survey was..
US Ambassador to Bulgaria Kenneth Merten stated, in an interview for Trud newspaper, that Ukraine’s future was in NATO and it was a question of time when it would join. He reaffirmed that NATO was firmly committed to defending the security of all..
Sunday will be sunny and hot. There will be weak to moderate northeasterly wind. Temperatures will continue to rise and the highest..
The new Bulgarian Patriarch, Daniil, has spoken out in favour of reconciliation within the Orthodox churches. "There is a broken communion between..
The Democrats for a Strong Bulgaria (DSB) party is proposing to its partners in the We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) coalition that..
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