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UN: Nearly 40 million had HIV in 2023, many died due to lack of treatment

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By VOA | Jul 24, 2024

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**An elderly patient with an advanced stage of AIDS sits on her bed at a community hospital in Bangui, Central African Republic, January 27, 2022.** [AFP photo]

Nearly 40 million people were living with the HIV virus that causes AIDS last year, over 9 million weren't getting any treatment, and the result was that every minute someone died of AIDS-related causes, the U.N. said in a new report launched Monday.

While advances are being made to end the global AIDS pandemic, the report said progress has slowed, funding is shrinking, and new infections are rising in three regions: the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Latin America.

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