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It's been 25 years since first reports of Aids in the US
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May 30, 2006, 12:45
Sub-Saharan Africa remained the region of the world worst affected by HIV, says the Joint United Nations Programme on Aids (UNAids). Mark Stirling, the director of UNAid's regional support team, in east and southern Africa, said about 2.5 million people in sub-Saharan Africa lived with HIV.
"Almost one third of people living with HIV globally live in southern Africa," he said. Stirling was speaking at a Global Aids Report briefing in Johannesburg. He said infection rates, especially through sexual transmission, is continuing to increase in southern Africa.
In 2005, one third of Aids deaths globally occurred in southern Africa, where about 930 000 people died of Aids-related illnesses. "In southern Africa HIV prevalence levels are exceptionally high except for Angola and Zimbabwe," said Stirling. - Sapa
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