30 years of fighting AIDS

srmodh — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:57:09 +0000

Thirty years have passed since the discovery of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome, better known as AIDS.
It was 30 years ago, during the summer of 1981, that the American medical authorities officially recognised a mysterious pneumonia and a rare skin cancer. Two years later, Professor Luc Montagnier and researcher Françoise Barré-Sinoussi discovered the virus responsible for AIDS.
In 30 years, 25 to 30 million people across the world have died as the result of serious illnesses related to the AIDS virus. Today, more than 33 million people are infected with HIV.

Although enormous progress relating to its treatment has been made, allowing people infected with HIV to live longer and with fewer side effects, there is still no vaccine against AIDS. Two people are treated for every five new infections. Recognising transmission sources and thus avoiding them remains the most effective protection against the disease.
Though HIV infections can be avoided, its eradication still remains one of the biggest health challenges of our era.

Title: 30 years of fighting AIDS
Date of Issue: 28 September 2011
Country: Luxembourg
Denominations: 0,60 + 0,60 = 1,20 €

Source: http://www.pt.lu/

Men’s European Volleyball Championships

srmodh — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 07:18:50 +0000

Following the 2010 FIBA Basketball Championship for Women in Brno, Ostrava and Karlovy Vary, a most successfull event for the Czech players who won the unexpected silver medals, the Czech audience will get a chance to see players of another ball game, even more popular than basketball, viz. volleyball.

The Czech men’s representation team won the surprising 10th place at the 2010 World Cup in Italy after they had beaten the previous world champions, the US team, 3:0, but had unluckily lost 2:3 to the new world champions from Brazil.
The championships will be hosted in Austria and the Czech Republic. The anticipated tough events will take place in two Austrian and two Czech cities.
The Austrian cities are Vienna and Innsbruck. The two host cities initially chosen by the Czech organizing committee, i.e. Prague and Liberec, were recently changed to Prague and Karlovy Vary, maybe because the latter was a successful host of the basketball championship finals.

Jan Svoboda, coach of the Czech representation team, used the following words to assess the position of the Czech players in Pool B: “We did not want to get Russia or Serbia before the drawing took place. Now we are in one group with Russia, Portugal and Estonia. Portugal has also been one of the top European teams, and we were very glad we had managed to win the World Cup qualification event after the 3:2 heartbreaking finish. And Estonia would not have been our choice from the fourth, easiest group, either. It is a tough pool, and it will not be an easy task to go through. But it is our aim.”

Title: Men’s European Volleyball Championships
Date of Issue: 31 August 2011
Country: Czech Republic
Denominations: 20 CZK

Source: www.ceskaposta.cz

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30 years of fighting AIDS

Men’s European Volleyball Championships