Vittorio Emanuele Agnoletto (born 6 March 1958 in

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) is an Italian doctor,

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and a former

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for the Southern Italy constituency. He was first elected in the 2004 European Parliament elections on the

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(

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: ''Partito della Rifondazione Comunista'', PRC) list, part of the

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. He was not re-elected in the 2009 European Parliament elections. Agnoletto sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs and was a substitute for the

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Career

A graduate in

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and surgery at the

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(1985), he specialized in

occupational medicine Occupational medicine, until 1960 called industrial medicine, is the branch of medicine which is concerned with the maintenance of health in the workplace, including prevention and treatment of diseases and injuries, with secondary objectives ...

, and became co-founder (1987) and national chairman (1992–2001) of LILA - Italian League against

AIDS Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual m ...

. Since 1992, Agnoletto has been a lecturer and director of studies for training courses on AIDS at the Higher Institute of Health in

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. Between 1993 and 2001, he served as member of the National Committee on AIDS of the Italian Ministry of Health, and member of the National Coordinating Committee for action to combat drugs established under the

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's office. Since 1994, he is a member of the

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. He works with the

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preventive medicine Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, consists of measures taken for the purposes of disease prevention.Hugh R. Leavell and E. Gurney Clark as "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental hea ...

projects in the

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. Vittorio Agnoletto was a member of the European AIDS Treatment Group between 1994 and 2000. In 1994, he was awarded the title ''Doctor of the Year'' in 1994 by the journal ''Stampa medica''. Before joining the PRC, he was a member of

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(and was a member of its National Secretariat in the 1980s). He was elected a to the Milan Province Council in 1990, and served until 1995. A spokesman for the ''Genoa Social Forum'' during the

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in 2001, he became a member of the International Council of the

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. His published works include the 2003 ''Prima persone: le nostre ragioni contro questa globalizzazione'' - published by Laterza. In 2011 he publishes, together with Lorenzo Guadagnucci, L'eclisse della Democrazia, Le verità nascoste sul G8 2001 a Genova'' (

) - published by Feltrinelli. With the musician Marco Fusi Agnoletto wrote a play of great success, also represented in the European Parliament in Brussels

References

External links

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Interview with him about Genoa
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(in German) * *
Interview with him about his 2011 book and the Global political situation
(in Italian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Agnoletto, Vittorio 1958 births Anti-globalization activists Italian occupational health practitioners Living people Communist Refoundation Party politicians Physicians from Milan Italian anti-war activists Communist Refoundation Party MEPs MEPs for Italy 2004–2009 21st-century Italian politicians Proletarian Democracy politicians 20th-century Italian physicians 21st-century Italian physicians Politicians from Milan