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Chicago Tribune - November 20, 2007
The UN AIDS-fighting agency plans to issue a report Tuesday acknowledging it overestimated the size of the epidemic and that new infections have been dropping each year since they peaked in the late 1990s.
UNAIDS will lower its estimate of the number of people infected worldwide, to 33.2 million from the 39.5 million late last year. The statistical changes reflect more accurate surveys, particularly in India and some populous African countries.
Better surveys, particularly a household survey in India, have driven the figures down, health officials said.
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