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Summary The UN report says 34 million people were Effected by HIV by December 2010.
The last decade has seen a nearly 25 percent decline in new HIV infections, a reduction in AIDS-related deaths, and unprecedented advances in access to treatment, prevention services and care, the United Nations AIDS agency said in a report released Thursday night.But UNAIDS said these achievements are unevenly distributed, exceedingly fragile, and fall short of global targets.The report said more than 34 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2010 including 2.6 million who became newly infected with the virus that causes AIDS in 2009.An estimated 6.6 million people in low- and middle-income countries were receiving antiretroviral drug treatment at the end of last year, but about 9 million eligible people in those countries were not, the report said.
