Nearly 40M People Were Living With HIV Last Year As Progress To End AIDS Pandemic Slows, Report Says

The AP (7/23, Lederer) says, “Nearly 40 million people were living with the HIV virus that causes AIDS last year, over 9 million weren’t getting any treatment, and the result was that every minute someone died of AIDS-related causes, the U.N. said in a new report launched Monday.” Although “advances are being made to end the global AIDS pandemic, the report said progress has slowed, funding is shrinking, and new infections are rising in three regions: the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Latin America.” Last year, “around 630,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses, a significant decline from the 2.1 million deaths in 2004.” However, “the latest figure is more than double the target for 2025 of fewer than 250,000 deaths, according to the report by UNAIDS.”