The number of people infected with the virus that causes AIDS has doubled over the past decade to 40 million, and there is no end in sight as the pandemic continues to outrun efforts to prevent new infections and treat those already sick, according...
The number of people infected with the virus that causes AIDS has doubled over the past decade to 40 million, and there is no end in sight as the pandemic continues to outrun efforts to prevent new infections and treat those already sick, according to a new U.N. report released Monday. Roughly 40,000 people in the United States are infected each year, nearly half of them African American. About 18,000 people die. Worldwide, AIDS has killed about 25 million people since it emerged in the early 1980s, 3.1 million of them last year alone. Nearly 5 million people were infected last year, according to the report. Nearly two-thirds of new infections, 3 million, were in sub-Saharan Africa.
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