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At the end of 2007 over 25 Million had died of AIDS . Estimates of the number of deaths in 2007 was 2.1 Million. According to estimates from the UNAIDS/WHO AIDS Epidemic, 30-36 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2007. 22 Million of those infected are in sub-saharan Africa. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections peaked at 3.4 million in 1998 and there were 2.5 million new infections in 2007. The % of HIV infections which are women ranges from 20% in N. America to 55% in Africa.
36% of the adult population in Swaziland and Botswana are infected and up to 25% of the population of Zimbabwe are infected. Antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, which reduced AIDS-related deaths in the richer countries. US deaths droped from 49,351 in 1995 to 15,000 in 2004.
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