About 39 million adults were thought to be living with HIV/AIDS in 2005. Close to 4 million became newly infected with HIV and 3 million died because of AIDS-related causes. African countries are the worst affected and there is no clear evidence of HIV prevalence declining in many of them. Source: Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, Joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS, 2006 Reproduced with kind permission of UNAIDS (www.unaids.org)

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