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The United Nations estimates that about 34million people are living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes Aids.

In a report released ahead of the International Aids Society's 2012 annual meeting set for next week in Washington, DC, it said that the number of worldwide Aids-related deaths fell to 1.7million last year from some 1.8million in 2010. Aids deaths peaked at 2.3million in 2005.

The decline has been fuelled by greater access to medications that help more people live with the disease. An estimated 8million people in lower-income countries are receiving antiretroviral drugs, and the United Nations has set a target to raise that to 15million by 2015.

Funding for HIV prevention and treatment totalled $16.8-billion (about R136-billion) last year. Of that amount, $8.2-billion (about R66-billion) came from international sources including the US, which donated 48% of it.

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Wed Jun 19 15:48:34 SAST 2013 ::

Jul 20, 2012

Shredder

I wonder who is the master mind behind this disease. Anyway, I think they are making progress in controlling it.
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Jul 20, 2012

Papage

How much deformed babies did we have? and how many died before born because of HIV drugs?
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Jul 20, 2012

shaharazad

Obviously the Study forgot about those who wont declare their status in SA, dying of pneumonia and diabetes (as if)
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Jul 23, 2012

SOLUTIONS

Shredder, maybe go and read up on the disease and find out where it came from.
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