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Sunday Times (Johannesburg) - November 21, 2007
Borrie La Grange
But the revised figures do not have a bearing on South Africa - the country with the highest number of infections. Local research has delivered some of the most reliable information about HIV prevalence.
UN Aids announced in its 2007 HIV-Aids epidemic update that the estimate of the number of people living with the virus was skewed in several countries with large populations, where the figures were based on data from antenatal surveys.
About 70 percent of the difference was accounted for by revisions for India - which alone accounts for more than half of the reduction - and by several sub- Saharan African countries, including Nigeria, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Angola, UN Aids said.
It was originally estimated that 5.7million Indians were infected with HIV, but the new data put the figure at 2.5million.
The agency said the revised figures pointed to a levelling off of HIV prevalence, but added that this year about 2.5million people had been infected by the virus and another 2.1million had died.
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