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UN says AIDS epidemic slowing down
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November 24, 2010, Wednesday
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AN estimated 33.3 million people worldwide have the HIV virus that causes AIDS, but the global health community is starting to slow down and even turn the epidemic around, a United Nations report said yesterday.
The total number of HIV-infected people in 2009 was down slightly from the previous year's 33.4 million. While more than 5 million of those who need life-saving AIDS drugs are getting them, around two-thirds of the 15 million people in poorer countries who still need them cannot get them.
Children and marginalized groups like drug users and sex workers are also far less likely to get AIDS drugs than others, according to the 2010 global update from the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
"For the first time, we can say that we are breaking the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic. We have halted and begun to reverse the epidemic," UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe said.
The total number of HIV-infected people in 2009 was down slightly from the previous year's 33.4 million. While more than 5 million of those who need life-saving AIDS drugs are getting them, around two-thirds of the 15 million people in poorer countries who still need them cannot get them.
Children and marginalized groups like drug users and sex workers are also far less likely to get AIDS drugs than others, according to the 2010 global update from the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
"For the first time, we can say that we are breaking the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic. We have halted and begun to reverse the epidemic," UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe said.
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