world day against him AIDS Today and just a few days ago, a ministerial decision was published by the Minister of Health, Thanos Pleuris, on the basis of which, for the first time in our country, the National Register of HIV Infection Patients is being created.

The purpose of the National Register of HIV Patients is:

• Register all HIV patients diagnosed and/or provided with medical services in Greece.
• Collect accurate, necessary and appropriate data that will relate to epidemiological data, stage of the disease, treatment characteristics and course of the disease, as well as data from the department / department and the attending physician.
• Based on the collected epidemiological data, draw conclusions about the prevalence of the disease, risk factors, distribution by age and sex, the course of the disease, monitoring outcomes, the effectiveness and safety of the methods of treatment used.
• Provide an opportunity to evaluate the use of medical services and organize them more efficiently.
• Make it possible to secure scientific capacity with the ability to manage and monitor specific patients throughout the territory.
• Ensure that all necessary medical data related to the confirmation of a patient’s diagnosis can be recorded based on scientific criteria for inclusion in the Register.
• Provide the possibility of periodic registration and monitoring of indicators and parameters necessary for the analysis of the condition of patients.
• Provide electronic prescription for antiretroviral drugs, as well as monitoring tests for people with confirmed HIV infection.
• To facilitate disease surveillance by the National Public Health Organization (EODY).
• Make it possible to collect anonymized or pseudonymized data for research with the possibility of access to them by the scientific community upon a motivated request.

And an electronic statement

The electronic prescription includes antiretroviral drugs and referrals for laboratory tests for the quantitative determination of HIV-1 RNA and other tests for monitoring HIV infection for people with confirmed HIV infection.

Health care providers prescribe antiretroviral drugs and laboratory tests to quantify HIV-1 RNA or other tests to monitor HIV for people with confirmed HIV infection.

The new ministerial decision is part of a comprehensive network for the prevention and protection of people with HIV:

• Possibility of adoption by HIV-positive couples if they follow their treatment
• Establishment of an assisted reproduction department and a cryopreservation bank for people with HIV infection
• Availability of antiviral/antiretroviral drugs for prophylaxis (Prep).