How many people have died so far from the AIDS virus?

It was estimated that during 2005, between 4.9 and 6.6 million people were newly infected with HIV and between 2.8 and 3.6 million people with AIDS died.Sub-Saharan Africa remains by far the worst-affected region, with 23.8 million to 28.9 million people living with HIV at the end of 2005. The proportion of women being affected by the epidemic continues to increase. In 2005, 16.2鈥?9.3 million women were living with HIV 鈥?one million more than in 2003. Just under two thirds (64%) of all people living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa, as are more than three quarters (77%) of all women living with HIV.[2] South & South East Asia are second most affected with 18%. AIDS accounts for the deaths of 500,000 children.

The number of people living with HIV continues to rise, but in several countries it is declining. Evidence points out that changes in sexual behaviour, such as increased use of condoms, fewer sexual partners and delay of sexual experience, played key parts in these declines. The steepest increases have occurred in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (25% increase to 1.6 million) and East Asia.

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