«Portugal:

36,000 people living with HIV/AIDS, or 0.74% of the adult population. Decreases in AIDS incidence were observed in all countries across Europe, except Portugal, where the epidemic began later. Portugal now has the highest AIDS incidence in Europe (88 cases per million population in 1999. Portugal is the only country in Europe to report a significant number of cases of HIV-2 infection. To the end of 1999 there had been 6,558 cases of AIDS reported. Portugal?s serious epidemic among injecting drug users accounted for more than half the newly diagnosed HIV infections in both 2000 and 2001, though the number of reported HIV infections among injecting drug users declined significantly in 2001.»