An estimated 25 million people are living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa and although there appears to be a stabilization in HIV prevalence rates this is actually due to a rise in AIDS deaths and a continued increase in new infections. This is according to a UNAIDS report that warns that the number of people living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has risen in every region of the world during 2003 and last year five million people became newly infected with HIV - more people than any previous year.