1.6 million deaths from HIV is a lot… but it is 100,000 fewer people than in 2011. 2.3 million new people infected with the virus in 2012 it is huge… but it is 200,000 people less than in 2011 (and 33% less than in 2001). Add to this the fact that at the end of 2012, 9.7 million people in poor and developing countries had access to antiretroviral treatment for the disease (20% more than the previous year) and you will have an overview. progress announced by the United Nations in its annual report on the AIDS virus.
“The world is getting closer to one of the Millennium Development Goals: the AIDS epidemic has been stopped and its course has been reversed. The race is on towards universal access to HIV treatment ”announced Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS during the presentation of the Report on the global AIDS epidemic 2013.
The decrease in the number of HIV infections in children is also notable: they fell by 260,000 cases in 2012, 52% less than in 2001. And the expansion of access to anti-retroviral treatments in some African countries is expected to further decrease the number of deaths.
Significant progress has also been made in meeting the needs of tuberculosis patients. living with HIV, and tuberculosis-related deaths of people infected with the virus have fallen by 36% since 2004.
