The report dubbed ‘The Urgency of Now: AIDS at a Crossroad’ shows that almost half of the people who acquired HIV in 2023 were living in eastern and southern Africa and western and central Africa, the regions that have together achieved the steepest decline 56pc in new infections since 2010.
“For the first time, the number of new HIV infections outside sub-Saharan Africa surpassed the number of new HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa.” Stated the report.
