AIDS On The Rise In Africa

With almost 40 million people living with AIDS already, the numbers are on the rise in East Asia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. And in countries that had previously shown leveling off or decreases, we are seeing increases.

(BBC) In Eastern Europe/Central Asia there was a 70% increase in the number of new infections seen in 2006 compared with 2004 - 270,000 compared with 160,000.

In South-East Asia, the number of new infections rose by 15% from 2004 to 2006.