{"id":1442825,"date":"2023-12-08T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1442825"},"modified":"2023-12-08T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T12:45:00","slug":"the-global-number-of-new-hiv-infections-is-falling-but-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-global-number-of-new-hiv-infections-is-falling-but-2\/1442825\/","title":{"rendered":"The Global Number Of New HIV Infections Is Falling, But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">The Global Number Of New HIV Infections Is Falling, But&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>There were an estimated 1.3 million new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/773\/hiv-aids-worldwide\/#topicOverview\">HIV<\/a>\u00a0infections in 2022, according to UNAIDS latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unaids.org\/en\/resources\/presscentre\/pressreleaseandstatementarchive\/2023\/july\/unaids-global-aids-update\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>While still too high, this figure is the lowest in decades, <\/strong>with declines particularly strong in regions with the highest HIV burdens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/30760\/new-hiv-infections-in-2022-and-the-change-in-number\/\">As Statista&#8217;s Anna Fleck shows in the following chart,<\/a> <strong>Eastern and southern Africa have seen a fall of 57 percent of new HIV infections between 2010 and 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the region still has the highest number of new cases annually, with 500,000 recorded new infections in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/30760\/new-hiv-infections-in-2022-and-the-change-in-number\/\" title=\"Infographic: The Global Number of New HIV Infections Is Falling | Statista\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Asia and the Pacific had the second highest number of new cases at 300,000 worldwide, yet also saw a substantial fall, this time of -14 percent, over the 12 year period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Three regions have seen increases in the number of HIV infections in that time frame:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Latin America (+8 percent),\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/16254\/new-hiv-diagnoses-per-100000-people\/\">Eastern Europe<\/a>\u00a0and central Asia (+49 percent),<\/p>\n<p>and the Middle East and North Africa (+61 percent).<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, <strong>the biggest decreases in numbers of new infections were among children (aged 0-14 years) and young people (aged 15-24 years). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is partly due to fewer new HIV infections in women and higher coverage of treatment among people living with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>December 1 marked <a href=\"https:\/\/worldaidsday.org\/\">World AIDS Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Fri, 12\/08\/2023 &#8211; 02:45<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/global-number-new-hiv-infections-falling-0\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/global-number-new-hiv-infections-falling-0<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Global Number Of New HIV Infections Is Falling, But&#8230; There were an estimated 1.3 million new\u00a0HIV\u00a0infections in 2022, according to UNAIDS latest\u00a0report. 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