| World AIDS Day is to be observed tomorrow across | | | | infections in other nations. |
| the globe with some 33 million people living with the | | | | “The overall number of people living with HIV |
| virus in 2007, a report of the United Nations Joint | | | | has increased as a result of the ongoing number of |
| Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) showed. | | | | new infections each year and the beneficial effects |
| In its “2008 Report on Global AIDS | | | | of more widely available antiretroviral |
| Epidemic,” UNAIDS said the rate of new | | | | therapy,” UNAIDS said. |
| infections has gone down in several countries but this | | | | Sub-Saharan Africa is still the most heavily affected |
| “favorable” trend has been | | | | by HIV, accounting for 67 percent of all HIV cases |
| “partially offset” by increases in new | | | | and for 72 percent of AIDS deaths in 2007. |