Medscape: Asian AIDS Infections up as World Response Falters

AIDS is gaining ground, and Asia, with 60 percent of the world's population, has some of the sharpest rises in HIV infections, according to a United Nations report released on Tuesday.

"We are not doing well, at all," said Dr Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.

"More people than ever are newly infected with HIV, more people than ever are dying and there is a globalisation of the epidemic outside Africa," he told Reuters. Read more >>

In India, HIV must be raging on. :(