{"id":7163,"date":"2005-01-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/correction-in-the-emcdda-report\/"},"modified":"2022-07-04T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T11:37:22","slug":"correction-in-the-emcdda-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drogriporter.hu\/en\/correction-in-the-emcdda-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Correction in the EMCDDA Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union informed the EMCDDA that there was an error in its Annual Report (released on 25 november, 2004). They replied and acknowledged the mistake, they promised to correct it in the online version.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union informed the EMCDDA that there was an error in its Annual Report (released on 25 november, 2004). They replied and acknowledged the mistake, they promised to correct it in the online version.<br \/><font face=\"Arial\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"\"><font face=\"Arial\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"69\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/drogriporter\/eulogo.jpg\" valign=\"top\" width=\"69\" \/> <font face=\"Arial\">The table&nbsp;on page 56 demonstrated that the prevalence of HIV is 0 (zero) percent&nbsp;among&nbsp;Hungarian intravenous drug users according to a&nbsp;research done with &quot;national coverage.&quot; In addition, on the next page (p. 57) another table shows the HCV prevalence is circa 30% among Hungarian iv. drug users, again with &quot;national coverage.&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"\"><font face=\"Arial\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><font size=\"3\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">But in the past 15 years there&nbsp;was <u>NO<\/u> research carried out in <\/span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Hungary<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> on HIV or HCV prevalence among iv. drug users <u>with<\/u> <u>national coverage<\/u>.&nbsp;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"\"><font face=\"Arial\">&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><font size=\"3\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">There is indeed a&nbsp;Sentinel Surveillance research&nbsp;carried out by&nbsp;Eszter Ujhelyi M.D. (Szent L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Hospital, Budapest)&nbsp;from year to year since 1997 with a small research sample (331 persons in the year 2003), which covers only the data of iv. drug users from&nbsp;two (2)&nbsp;treatment facilities of the capital, <\/span><st1:city><st1:place><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Budapest<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">. One is the detoxification centre of the Toxicological Department of the <\/span><st1:place><st1:placename><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Erzs\u00e9bet<\/span><\/st1:placename><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> <\/span><st1:placetype><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Hospital<\/span><\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">, the other one is the Methadone Treatment Program of the <\/span><st1:place><st1:placename><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Ny\u00edr\u0151<\/span><\/st1:placename><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> <\/span><st1:placename><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Gyula<\/span><\/st1:placename><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> <\/span><st1:placetype><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Hospital<\/span><\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">. Considering the fact that according to the most conservative estimates there are cca. 10.000-15.000 intravenous drug users in the country (at least 10.000 in <\/span><st1:city><st1:place><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">Budapest<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"> only), this sample cannot be referred neither as representative nor as with&nbsp;national coverage. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><font size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><font size=\"3\"><font size=\"3\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\">EMCDDA assured HCLU&nbsp;that &quot;the error will be corrected in the online version of the Annual Report 2004 (<a href=\"https:\/\/annualreport.emcdda.eu.int\/en\/home-en.html\">https:\/\/annualreport.emcdda.eu.int\/en\/home-en.html<\/a>) as well as in the Statistical Bulletin (<a href=\"https:\/\/statistics.emcdda.eu.int\/\">https:\/\/statistics.emcdda.eu.int\/<\/a>) as soon as possible.&quot; <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union informed the EMCDDA that there was an error in its Annual Report (released on 25 november, 2004). 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