India has the third-highest number of people living with HIV in the world, with 2.1 million Indians accounting for four of every 10 people infected in Asia, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday.
The epidemic has killed about 39 million of the 78 million people it has affected worldwide since it began in the 1980s, the U.N. AIDS programme said, adding that the number of people infected with HIV was stabilising around 35 million.
Here are some facts and figures on India from the report:
India accounted for 51 percent of AIDS-related deaths in Asia in 2013 and 8 percent of deaths worldwide.
via India Insight.
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