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UN Says More Funds Urgently Needed to Tackle AIDS
Deaths from AIDS-related illnesses fell in 2007 for the second year running, thanks mainly to the widening distribution of drugs to control the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that wrecks immune defences, an UNAIDS report said.
Mortality from AIDS last year was around two million -- some 200,000 deaths fewer than in 2005.
The tally of people living with HIV last year is put at around 33 million, compared with 32.7 million in 2006, according to the report, issued ahead of the 17th International AIDS Conference , opening in Mexico City on Sunday.
Some 2.7 million people became newly infected last year.
Overall, the share of the world's population with HIV reached 0.8 percent in 2000 and has stayed roughly at this plateau ever since, the report notes.
But the total of people with the virus continues to edge up, posing the risk of further infections and further straining of resources.
"The global epidemic is stabilising but at an unacceptably high level," said the document, 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, which fine tunes estimates made in December.
A massive increase in funding for countries -- led by those in Africa, home to two-thirds of those with the disease -- was now bearing fruit.
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