Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Record number of new HIV cases in '05

UNAIDS Annual Report
Read the full Reuters/Yahoo! News article by Kamil Zaheer.

"Almost 5 million people were infected by HIV globally in 2005, the highest jump since the first reported case in 1981 and taking the number living with the virus to a record 40.3 million, the United Nations said on Monday.

"The 4.9 million new infections were fueled by the epidemic's continuing rampage in sub-Saharan Africa and a spike in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the UNAIDS body said in its annual report."

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