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Marking the 30th anniversary of the first reports of HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS has released its latest statistics on the pandemic.> More than 60 million people have contracted HIV, of whom almost 30 million have died of related causes.
> 2009 saw 2.6 million new HIV infections, down from 3.1 million in 1999; 370,000 children born with HIV; and 1.8 million AIDS-related deaths.
> Of the estimated 33.3 million people living with HIV in 2009, 34 percent were in 10 nations of Southern Africa.
> In Asia, the number of people with HIV in 2009, 4.9 million, was about the same as five years earlier.
> Central and South America saw 92,000 new HIV infections in 2009, along with 68,000 AIDS-related deaths.
> About 2.3 million people were living with HIV in North America and Western and Central Europe that year, and another 101,000 individuals became infected.
The Friends of AIDS Foundation is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV virus. To learn more about The Friends of AIDS Foundation, please visit: http://www.friendsofaids.org.
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