“Average life expectancy in Sub-Saharan Africa jumped from 56 years in 2010 to 61 years in 2023 thanks to progress made in the fight against HIV/AIDS, according to a global UN report.

The success stands in contrast to the “hesitant” HIV response elsewhere in the world, amid rising HIV rates in at least 28 countries, according to the analysis published today (22 July) by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS)

According to the report, around 31 million people were on antiretroviral treatment in 2023, reducing deaths linked to the disease to 630,000, their lowest level globally since the 2004 peak of around two million.

Anne-Claire Guichard, senior policy advisor at UNAIDS and one of the report’s authors, says linked or integrated treatment of TB and HIV for people living with both diseases, prevented around 6.4 million deaths worldwide between 2010 and 2022.”

From Gavi.