New Health News: UN Group Reports Sharp Declines in HIV Infections

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UN Group Reports Sharp Declines in HIV Infections

A United Nations agency says that since 2001, the rate of new HIV infections has been cut in half, in 25 low- to middle-income countries, a majority of them in Africa.

 The findings are in an annual report released Tuesday by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS known as UNAIDS.

 UNAIDS also says AIDS-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa have dropped by one-third over the last six years while the Caribbean region has experienced a 48-percent reduction in deaths for the same period.

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Source: UN Group Reports Sharp Declines in HIV Infections