The good news today is that the annual number of new global infections continues to fall – from the high point of some 3.4 million in 2001 to 2.3 million in 2012. And, as fewer people contract HIV, and more of those who do are given life-saving treatments, fewer progress to AIDS.In 2005, some 2.3 million people died from AIDS, but this number had declined to 1.6 million in 2012. These figures indicate how far we have come in the long journey from AIDS to HIV.