New United Nations Report Shows Global AIDS Epidemic Is Starting to Turn Around

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Tomado del CDC. 20-01-2011

"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, according to the UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic 2010.
The total number of HIV-infected people in 2009 was down slightly from the previous year's 33.4 million, and at least 56 countries have either stabilized or achieved significant declines in rates of new HIV infections.
Although more than 5 million of those who need life-saving AIDS drugs are getting them, about two-thirds of the 15 million people in poorer countries who need the drugs cannot get them. Marginalized groups like drug users and sex workers are far less likely to get help than others, according to the 2010 global update by the Joint U.N. Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Since the beginning of the epidemic in the 1980s, more than 60 million people have been infected with HIV and nearly 30 million have died of HIV-related causes.
The UNAIDS report found that new HIV infections have been reduced by nearly 20% in the past 10 years, and among young people in 15 of the most severely affected countries, rates of HIV have fallen by more than 25% as these young persons adopt safer sexual practices. However, there are still two new HIV infections for every one person starting HIV treatment.
According to the report, 10 million people who are still in need of HIV/AIDS treatment do not have access to it. It also found that one in four AIDS deaths is caused by tuberculosis, a preventable and curable disease.
In sub-Saharan Africa, the region of the world hardest hit by HIV and AIDS, there were 1.3 million AIDS-related deaths in 2009 and 1.8 million people became newly infected with HIV."