| Aids Epidemic Update
World Health Organization, December 2006. Web posted November 21, 2006,online edition, 94p
Although promising developments have been made in recent years, the number of people living with HIV continues to grow. A total of 39.5 million people are living with HIV worldwide in 2006 including 4.3 million adults and children newly infected in 2006 (a concentration of the newly infected are young adults aged 15-24 years old. Sub-Saharan Africa continues to bear the brunt of the global epidemic with 63% of all adults and children with HIV and almost three quarters of all adult and child deaths are due to AIDS. In the past two years, the number of people living with HIV increased in every region of the world with the most striking increases in East Asia and Eastern Europe—over 21% higher than 2004. Access to treatment and care has greatly improved over the past several years resulting in an estimated increase of a cumulative total of over two million life years gained since 2002.
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