Prevalence of<unk> , total (% of population ages 15–49), in 2011 (} HIV/AIDS originated in<unk>  in the early 20th century and is a major public health concern and cause of death in many<unk> n countries. AIDS rates vary dramatically although the majority of cases are concentrated in Southern<unk> . Although the continent is home to about 15.2 percent of the world's population, more than two-thirds of the total infected worldwide – some 35 million people – were<unk> ns, of whom 15 million have already died. Sub-Saharan<unk>  alone accounted for an estimated 69 percent of all people living with HIV and 70 percent of all AIDS deaths in 2011. In the countries of sub-Saharan<unk>  most affected, AIDS has raised death rates and lowered life expectancy among adults between the ages of 20 and 49 by about twenty years. Furthermore, the life expectancy in many parts of<unk>  is declining, largely as a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic with life-expectancy in some countries reaching as low as thirty-nine years. Countries in North<unk>  and the Horn of<unk>  have significantly lower prevalence rates, as their populations typically engage in fewer high-risk cultural patterns that promote the virus' spread in Sub-Saharan<unk> . Southern<unk>  is the worst affected region on the continent. As of 2011, HIV has infected at least 10 percent of the population in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South<unk> , Eswatini, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. In response, a number of initiatives have been launched in various parts of the continent to educate the public on HIV/AIDS. Among these are combination prevention programs, considered to be the most effective initiative, such as the abstinence, be faithful, use a condom campaign and the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation's outreach programs. The number of HIV positive people in<unk>  receiving anti-retroviral treatment in 2012 was over seven times the number receiving treatment in 2005, with nearly 1 million added in the previous year. The number of AIDS-related deaths in Sub-Saharan<unk>  in 2011 was 33 percent less than the number in 2005. The number of new HIV infections in Sub-Saharan<unk>  in 2011 was 25 percent less than the number in 2001. Thanks to urban education on preventive measures, the spread of the Virus has improved in recent times. According to the Global Burden of Disease study, almost one million (954,000) people died from HIV/AIDS in 2017. To put this into context: this was just over 50% higher than the number of deaths from malaria in 2017.
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