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FACTBOX-HIV/AIDS numbers from around the world

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Tuesday, 23 November 2010 10:30 GMT

Nov 23 (Reuters) - Here are some global data on HIV and AIDS from the latest update report by the Joint U.N. Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

THE GLOBAL PICTURE:

* An estimated 33.3 million people worldwide had the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS in 2009, according to the latest figures issued by (UNAIDS). There were 26.2 million in 1999.

* There were an estimated 1.8 million AIDS-related deaths around the world in 2009.

* One in four AIDS deaths is caused by tuberculosis, a preventable and curable disease.

* Since the AIDS pandemic started in the early 1980s, more than 60 million people have been infected with HIV and nearly 30 million have died of HIV-related causes.

* In 2009, there were 2.6 million new HIV infections, down from 3.1 million in 1999.

* Around 370,000 children were born with HIV in 2009, bringing to 2.5 million the total number of children under 15 living with HIV.

* AFRICA & ASIA:

* An estimated 1.8 million people were newly infected with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa in 2009, bringing to 22.5 million the number of Africans who have HIV.

* There were 1.3 million AIDS-related deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2009.

* The nine countries in southern Africa continue to bear a disproportionate share of the global AIDS burden. Each of them has an adult HIV rate of more than 10 percent.

* South and South East Asia, home to 60 percent of the world's population, is second only to sub-Saharan Africa in terms of people living with HIV. An estimated 4.1 million people there had HIV in 2009. Around 260,000 people died in the region in 2009.

* In East Asia, some 770,000 people had HIV in 2009 and 36,000 suffered AIDS-related deaths.

OTHER REGIONS:

* Some 1.5 million people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have HIV.

* In Central and South America, new HIV infections were an estimated 92,000 in 2009, bringing to 1.4 million the number of people there who have HIV. An estimated 68,000 people died of AIDS-related illnesses there in 2009.

* There were around 2.3 million people with HIV in North America and western and central Europe in 2009 and there were 101,000 new HIV infections in that year.

SOURCE: UNAIDS/Reuters (Compiled by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit; editing by Kate Kelland)

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