HIV infection: Six countries with the highest number of HIV infections in the world


  While HIV is declining globally, it continues to grow rapidly in six countries'

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Photo details, HIV infection has decreased worldwide due to the success achieved in sub-Saharan Africa.

  • Writer, Swaminathan Natarajan
  • Name the person who wrote the story, BBC World Service

Despite the reduction in the number of HIV infections, the immunodeficiency virus and the death toll caused by the disease, the United Nations agency to combat HIV/AIDS has warned that the world is not ready to eliminate the threat of the disease.

The UNAIDS agency said that there are currently 39.9 million people living with the disease in the world, and almost half of this number is in southern and eastern Africa.

The number of people infected with the immunodeficiency virus has decreased by 39 percent since 2010, and the number of deaths due to the disease has decreased by half.

However, Afghanistan, Egypt, Fiji, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Saudi Arabia have reported an increase of more than 100 percent between 2010 and 2023.

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