Global facts: World AIDS Day 2012
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- Worldwide, 2.5 million [2.2 million–2.8 million] people became newly infected with HIV in 2011.
- 25 countries have seen a 50% or greater drop in new HIV infections since 2001.
- A There has been a 42% reduction in new HIV infections in the Caribbean (the second most affected region in the world after sub-Saharan Africa).
- Half of all reductions in new HIV infections in the last two years have been among newborn children – showing that elimination of new infections in children is possible.
- A...
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