Almost two-thirds of new HIV cases occur outside southern and eastern Africa

Almost two-thirds of new cases of HIV now occur outside countries with high HIV prevalence in southern and eastern Africa, according to an analysis of UNAIDS country-level data presented earlier this month at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2024) in Denver.

Just over half (19.4 million, 53%) of the global population of people living with HIV resided in southern or eastern Africa in 2022, in 15 countries where national HIV prevalence is above 3.5%. But 62% of new HIV infections that year (770,000) were estimated to have occurred in countries with lower HIV…