The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for a resolute fight against HIV and related stigma in Europe, ahead of an international AIDS conference that opens in the southern German city of Munich on Monday. While the numbers of new infections and deaths are rising in Europe, the epidemic situation varies greatly across the region, WHO regional director Hans Kluge told dpa. “The situation in the European region is one of dramatic contrasts,” the Belgian national noted. He said some countries had almost entirely stopped the transmission of HIV and were on the verge of being able to say that…