Malawi ART Guidelines 3rd Edition 2009

At the end of 2007, 33.2 million adults and children were estimated to be living with HIV / AIDS in the world. Since the start of the epidemic in 1981, nearly 25 million people have died of AIDS. During the year 2007, it was estimated that there were 2.5 million people newly infected with HIV and there were 2.1 million AIDS deaths.