More benign global AIDS statistics do not mean that the battle against HIV is being won. In a rare piece of good news, the Joint United Nations Programme onrnHIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) last month cut its estimate of the number ofrnpeople infected with HIV worldwide. The revised figures broughtrnthe estimate of those infected down from 39.5 million to 33.2 million,rnand put the number of new infections for 2007 at 2.5 million, down from what the agency now says was a late-1990s peak of more than 3 million per year. The revised statistics are particularly encouraging for India, where the agency says that 2.5 million people are infected with HIV, a figure that is less than half its previous estimate.
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