A UN report has said that New HIV cases among adults have declined by half in India since 2000. The report also praised India's contribution to AIDS response through manufacture of generic antiretroviral drugs.

Though rate of HIV transmission in Asia is slowing down,atleast 1,000 new infections among adults continue to be reported in the continent every day in 2011.

An estimated 3,60,000 adults were newly infected with HIV in Asia in 2011, considerably fewer than 4,40,000 estimated for 2001, a new UNAIDS report has said.

The report 'Together We Will End AIDS' said, that this reflects slowing HIV incidence in the larger epidemics, with seven countries accounting for more than 90 per cent of people in Asia living with HIV – China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam.

The UN AIDS lauded India for doing particularly well in halving the number of adults newly infected between 2000 and 2009 and said some smaller countries in Asia like Afghanistan and Philippines are experiencing increases in the number of people acquiring HIV infection.

It said a total 17 lakh people had died across the world due to AIDS related illness. In India, the figure for such deaths stood at 1.7 lakh in 2009.