39.5 million The number of
people who were living with HIV worldwide by the end of 2006
Millennium
Development Goal 6 : Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria
and other diseases
Target : Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse
the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
By the end of 2006, an estimated 39.5 million
people worldwide were living with HIV (up
from 2.9 million in 2001), mostly in sub-Saharan
Africa. Globally, 4.3 million people were
newly infected with the virus in 2006, with
Eastern Asia and the CIS showing the fastest
rates of infection. The number of people
dying from AIDS has also increased –
from 2.2 million in 2001 to 2.9 million
in 2006.
Source: UN DESA, The Millennium Development
Goals Report 2007, New York, June 2007.
