A United Nations body says the number of people killed by AIDS worldwide has edged down for a second straight year in 2007.
The Geneva-based UNAIDS said in its annual report that global AIDS deaths numbered about 2 million last year, that's 100,000 less than in 2006. Progress made in HIV prevention ...
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Celebs, Aliens Party at Europe's Largest AIDS Charity ... It added that about 33 million people were living with AIDS last year. About 7,500 people a day become infected with HIV, which is spread most often through sexual contact and injection drug use. Two-thirds of infected people live in Africa south of the Sahara Desert - 60 percent of them are women.
(Deutsche Welle)
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