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Infographic: World AIDS Day 2021 - Aljazeera.com

Infographic: World AIDS Day 2021 - Aljazeera.com

Infographic: World AIDS Day 2021 - Aljazeera.com
Dec 01, 2021 37 secs

Although AIDS-related deaths have declined in recent years, the epidemic still killed 680,000 people in 2020.

According to UNAIDS, there were 37.7 million people living with HIV around the world as of 2020.

Some 1.5 million people were infected with HIV in 2020 according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

HIV/AIDS has killed up to 36.3 million people and infected 79.3 million over the past 40 years.

While deaths have dropped by nearly 50 percent since 2010, some 680,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses in 2020.

In 2020, at least 27.5 million people received access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) – a treatment that reduces the amount of HIV in the blood (also known as the viral load).

As of November 2021, only 7 percent of people living in Africa had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to Our World in Data.

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