Globally in 2018, some 770,000 people died of AIDS and almost 38 million people were living with HIV.
It noted"worrying increases" in new infections in eastern Europe and central Asia, where HIV cases rose by 29 percent, as well as in the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America.
She said now was the time to"create road maps for the people and locations being left behind take a human rights-based approach to reaching people most affected by HIV." Global funding for the AIDS fight dropped off significantly in 2018 - by nearly $1 billion - as international donors gave less and domestic investments did not grow fast enough to plug the gap. Around $19 billion was available for the AIDS response in 2018, UNAIDS said - falling $7.2 billion short of the total $26.2 billion it says is needed by 2020.
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