UNAIDS Update Global HIV Numbers
UNAIDS Update Global HIV Numbers
Carmen de Mendoza
Puerta de Hierro University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
*Correspondence: Carmen de Mendoza, Email not available
Abstract
UNAIDS released on July 2019 the updated estimates for HIV figures worldwide (https://www.unaids.org/). Overall, 37.9 million people are currently living with HIV, more than 80% in developing countries and mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Roughly, 1.7 million new HIV infections occurred during the year 2018, which represents 5000 new infections per day. Overall, 61% of these new infections occur in Sub-Saharan Africa, 10% in children, half of them in women, and one-third in adolescents and youth (Figs. 1 and 2).
