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How many of them got anti-HIV drugs in 2021?",[98],"uk 0.85",[100],"uk 0.53","Worldwide, more than 50% of people living with HIV get anti-HIV drugs.","You would have been correct 15 years ago, but today it’s much better. Across the world, more than half of people with HIV get treatment. A medical triumph!","They didn’t realize how fast HIV treatment became available in most of the world.","Source: UNAIDS","UNAIDS provides estimates  with large uncertainty ranges, since there is a lot of uncertainty in these numbers. In 2021, they estimated the number of people living with HIV to be 38.4 million, with a range of 33.9 million–43.8 million. They estimate around 2 in 10 people don’t know they have HIV. When it comes to the share getting treatment, UNAIDS reported a figure of 75% for 2021, with a range of 66–85%. \n\nTo estimate the total number of people living with HIV, UNAIDS works with countries to develop modelled estimates. Modelled estimates are required because it is impossible to count the exact number of people living with HIV, people who are newly infected with HIV or people who have died from AIDS-related causes in any country. Doing so would require regularly testing every person for HIV and investigating all deaths, which is too costly, difficult and unethical.\n\nWe consulted with two independent experts and two epidemiologists working for UNAIDS when investigating the data for this question. We chose “more than 50%” as our correct answer, because of the uncertainty with the data and to avoid overstating progress.\n\n[1]  [UNAIDS - Global HIV & AIDS statistics — 2021 fact sheet](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.unaids.org\u002Fen\u002Fresources\u002Ffact-sheet)  \n[2]  [UNAIDS - HIV estimates with uncertainty bounds 1990-2021](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.unaids.org\u002Fen\u002Fresources\u002Fdocuments\u002F2020\u002FHIV_estimates_with_uncertainty_bounds_1990-present)  \n[3]  [UNAIDS - Global Aids Update 2022](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.unaids.org\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002Fmedia_asset\u002F2022-global-aids-update_en.pdf)  \n[4]  [Our World In Data - HIV\u002FAIDS](https:\u002F\u002Fourworldindata.org\u002Fhiv-aids)  \n[5]  [Gapminder Tools](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Ftools\u002F#$state$marker$axis_y$data=data_wdi&which=sh_hiv_artc_zs&domainMin:null&domainMax:null&zoomedMin:null&zoomedMax:null&spaceRef:null;;;&chart-type=bubbles)","HIV used to be a death sentence, but nowadays people can live a relatively normal life if they have treatment. It is one of the greatest medical triumphs in recent memory. There were NO treatments in the 1980s when the virus was discovered and when the treatments were introduced they were so expensive few people could afford them. Today, a majority of people with HIV receive medication.\n\n### Why is it a problem that people are wrong about this?\nThe development in the treatment of HIV is an incredible achievement. There is still a lot of work to be done to prevent and treat HIV, but things have been moving in the right direction for many years. If we are unaware of what we have achieved so far, there is a risk we lose hope of overcoming any of the other great challenges humans face. \n\n### Why are people wrong about this?\nImprovements almost never get the coverage and attention they deserve. It's hard for most people who remember the Aids crisis of the 1980s to believe that so many people get treatment these days. They remember the worry when HIV first emerged. First, we heard so much about the lack of treatment and then - when it did become available - we heard how expensive treatment was. But as it has become cheaper to treat people, HIV has been talked about less in the media and people understandably don’t realize that incredible progress has been made.\n\n### What impact has the Corona pandemic had on HIV treatment? \nAccording to UNAIDS, there was HIV service disruption in many countries due to the Coronavirus pandemic. That made it difficult for people living with HIV to access treatment in some settings, while in other settings clinics adjusted to provide medicines for a longer period of time in order to reduce visits. There was also some mixed evidence that people living with HIV were more at risk of dying if they are infected with COVID-19. Measures to mitigate Coronavirus also reduced access to HIV prevention and testing services which might potentially have led to higher HIV transmission rates (including to infants and children).\n\n### Can I trust this data?\nYes, but there is a lot of uncertainty in these figures, so the estimate of 75% from UNAIDS comes with a wide uncertainty range of 66-85%. That means that UNAIDS estimates that at least 66% of all people living with HIV get treatment, but also that no more than 85% are getting treatment. \n\n### Where can I read more about the changes in HIV infections, deaths and treatment?\nYou can look at data broken down by countries over time in [Gapminder’s tools](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Ftools\u002F#$state$marker$axis_y$data=data_wdi&which=sh_hiv_artc_zs&domainMin:null&domainMax:null&zoomedMin:null&zoomedMax:null&spaceRef:null;;;&chart-type=bubbles). \nOur World In Data have a comprehensive overview of how things have changed over the decades here: [HIV\u002FAIDS](https:\u002F\u002Fourworldindata.org\u002Fhiv-aids)\n\n[UNAIDS Fact sheet 2021](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.unaids.org\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002Fmedia_asset\u002F2021-global-aids-update_en.pdf)\n[UNAIDS data dashboard ](http:\u002F\u002Faidsinfo.unaids.org\u002F) with up-to-date country level data","A death sentence for fewer","You would have been correct 15 years ago, but today more than half of people with HIV get treatment."]