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FACTBOX-New HIV infections fall as AIDS epidemic stabilises

by Katie Nguyen | Katie_Nguyen1 | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Wednesday, 16 July 2014 13:09 GMT

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – If the world could rally to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, 18 million new HIV infections and 11.2 million AIDS-related deaths would be averted, the United Nations said on Wednesday. 

It said new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS were decreasing, making it possible to control the epidemic by 2030 and eventually end it "in every region, in every country". 

Here is the latest global and regional picture of HIV and AIDS from a report by UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.        

* An estimated 35 million people worldwide had the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS in 2013, according to the UNAIDS data, up 21 percent on 2001, when 28.9 million were living with HIV. 

* There were 2.1 million new HIV infections in 2013, a decline of 38 percent from 2001, when there were 3.4 million new infections. 

* There were 1.5 million AIDS-related deaths in 2013, down 35 percent from a peak of 2.3 million in 2005. 

* Globally 12.9 million people were receiving antiretroviral therapy by the end of 2013. However, 22 million people, or three out of five people living with HIV, still do not have access to antiretroviral therapy. 

* Fifteen countries account for 73 percent of all people living with HIV: South Africa, Nigeria, India, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, China, Ethiopia, Russia, Brazil and the United States.    

* 42 countries have laws specifically criminalising HIV non-disclosure, exposure and transmission. 

REGIONAL BREAKDOWN 

AFRICA

* Sub-Saharan Africa is still the region hardest hit by HIV, with 24.7 million HIV-positive people in 2013, nearly 71 percent of the global total. 

* Women account for 58 percent of the total number of people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.   

* In 2013, there were 1.5 million new HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa, a 19 percent drop since 2010. The number of new HIV infections is falling in every country in the region except for Angola and Uganda.   

* The number of AIDS-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa fell by 39 percent between 2005 and 2013.   

* In 2013, 1.5 million more people living with HIV received antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa. But 67 percent of men and 57 percent of women living with HIV are still not receiving HIV treatment. 

* Only 45 percent of people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa know their status. 

ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: 

* After sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Pacific region has the second largest number of people living with HIV.   

* An estimated 4.8 million people in the region were living with HIV at the end of 2013. Six countries - China, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam - account for more than 90 percent of the people living with HIV in Asia and the Pacific.   

* India had the third largest number of people living with HIV in the world - 2.1 million - at the end of 2013. It accounts for about four out of 10 people living with HIV in the region.   

* The number of AIDS-related deaths in the region fell by 37 percent between 2005 and 2013. 

* One in three HIV-positive people in Asia and the Pacific have access to antiretroviral therapy.    

* Between 2005 and 2013, new HIV infections in South and Southeast Asia declined by 8 percent and by 16 percent in the Pacific. 

WESTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE & NORTH AMERICA: 

* Just over 2.3 million people were estimated to be living with HIV in western and central Europe and North America in 2013. 

* The United States has the highest HIV burden in the region, accounting for 56 percent of all people living with HIV in this part of the world. It also accounted for the majority of AIDS-related deaths in the region in 2013 with 27,000 deaths - about 69 percent of all such deaths. 

* 54 percent of the 88,000 new infections in the region occurred in the United States.  

 LATIN AMERICA:   

* There were an estimated 1.6 million people living with HIV in Latin America at the end of 2013. Over 75 percent of the cases are spread among five countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela.   

* Approximately 10 new HIV infections occur every hour in this region 

EASTERN EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA: 

* There were an estimated 1.1 million people living with HIV in eastern Europe and central Asia in 2013.   

* Russia and Ukraine account for more than 85 percent of the regional epidemic.   

* In 2013, an estimated 53,000 people died of AIDS-related causes, an increase of 5 percent since 2005.           

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA: 

* An estimated 230,000 people were living with HIV in 2013 in this region, which has the lowest number of people living with HIV globally.   

* Iran has 70,000 people living with HIV and accounts for 30 percent of all people living with HIV in the region. In Sudan, 49,000 people are living with HIV, representing 21 percent of the regional burden.   

CARIBBEAN: 

* An estimated 250,000 people are living with HIV in the Caribbean. In 2013, there were nearly 11,000 AIDS-related deaths in the region and 12,000 new infections.        

SOURCE: UNAIDS/REUTERS

(Editing by Alex Whiting; alex.whiting@thomsonreuters.com)

 

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