Since the discovery of HIV, the total number of sick people he has reached 60 million people. But AIDS prevention programs still operate and have a huge impact on the spread of the disease. This is stated in the report of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV (AIDS) (UNAIDS), which was announced yesterday in Shanghai.
In 2008, he died from the disease 2 million, and the total number of AIDS victims is thus reached 25 million. In the same year, HIV was detected in 2, 7 million people, which was 33, 4 million cases in general. UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé said that over the past eight years, the number of new human immunodeficiency virus was reduced by 17%.
"The good news is that we have a recession proof pandemic," - said Sidibe. The biggest progress has been achieved on the African continent. Since the incidence of HIV since 2001 in East Africa fell by 25%, in the central part of the continent by 15%, which was in the last year, the total reduction in the number of cases to 400,000 cases.
In the south and south-east Africa, the number of infections with the HIV virus has dropped by 10% over the same period. But the amount of antiviral drugs delivered to these regions has increased over the past five years, ten times. This led to the fact that the death rate from AIDS since 2001 is reduced by 18%.
And yet every day the next 7400 people become infected with HIV.
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