To match Insight GREECE/HIV
EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL OR BOOK SALES. Nurse Maria Vatista is seen inside a mobile HIV testing van in Omonia square in Athens October 31, 2011. The latest available United Nations figures, from 2009, show that 11,000 people, or 0.1 percent of the Greek population, had HIV/AIDS, a third the rate in the United States. But that may be changing. In the first five months of 2010, Greece had 255 new HIV cases. Over the same period this year, there were 384 new cases -- an increase of more than 50 percent. The Hellenic Center predicts the rate of increase will rise to 60 percent by the end of 2011. By comparison in the United States, cases are increasing by around 7 percent annually. Picture taken October 31, 2011. To match Insight GREECE/HIV REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (GREECE - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY POLITICS)