According to statistics from the United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, there are currently 33.4 million people living with HIV in the world, of which 22.4 million live in sub-Saharan Africa; about 4.7 million in Asia; about 2.3 million in North America and Central and Western Europe; and about 2 million in Latin America. ; About 1.5 million in Eastern Europe. There are 2.7 million new HIV infections worldwide every year, of which nearly 2 million are in sub-Saharan Africa. Globally, 2 million people die from AIDS every year, 1.7 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

According to statistics, from 2001 to 2007, the number of AIDS patients in the EU and neighboring countries increased from 1.5 million to 2.2 million, of which 730,000 were in EU member states. On October 26, 2009, the European Commission adopted a new strategy for the prevention and control of AIDS from 2009 to 2013, aiming to reduce the number of AIDS patients in the EU and neighboring countries, improve AIDS prevention, treatment and care, and improve the quality of life for AIDS patients and their families. quality of life.

As of July 2010, approximately 1.1 million people in the United States were infected with HIV, with approximately 56,000 new infections each year. In July 2010, the United States announced a new AIDS prevention strategy, with the goal of reducing the number of new HIV infections by 25% in the next five years.