HIV Infections, AIDS Deaths Fall as More Get Drugs, UNAIDS Says
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More than 1.2 million people began taking anti-HIV drugs last year, an increase of 30 percent, as the number of new infections declined for a 12th straight year.
About 2.6 million people contracted the AIDS-causing virus worldwide last year, 19 percent less than in 1997 when the number of new infections peaked, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, or UNAIDS, said its annual report today. AIDS-related deaths fell to 1.8 million last year from a peak of 2.1 million in 2004, the Geneva-based agency said.