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No region of the world has remained untouched by HIV, with the virus spreading among groups ranging from ethnic minorities in North America to drug users in India.

Click on the map to read about how the virus has hit each region.
Asia

Asia is the fastest-growing HIV region in the world. There was a 50% increase in infections in East Asia between 2002 and 2004, for which the growing epidemics in China, Indonesia and Vietnam were largely responsible. East Asia also shows the sharpest rise in cases among women - 56% in the past two years. The Asian epidemic is fuelled by injecting drug use, sex work and sex between men, but is starting to spread more widely from these high-risk groups.

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