UN Aids Report Reveals Some Progress
A report from the Joint UN Programme on HIV/Aids reveals a 25 percent decrease in new pediatric infections since 2009 among 21 African countries, but despite this progress nine out of 10 children living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Africa:
Aids Report Says Infections Slowing
State Department, 18 July 2012
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) reports that 34.2 million people worldwide were living with HIV in 2011, while a decline in the rate of new infections has… Read more »
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Africa:
Nine in Ten Children With HIV Live in Africa
Health-e, 18 July 2012
The number of children infected globally with HIV has decreased by more than a quarter (26%) between 2009 and 2011, however more than 90 percent of the 3,4-million children living… Read more »