HIV infection rates fallen: Reports show that the number of those infected by HIV has dropped by a third since 2001.

This report is of those with the HIV infection from 2001-2012 all around the world. The rates have fallen and it continues to fall.

 According to a United Nations report, the success of efforts to turn back the tide of the world's deadliest infectious disease is working. With the HIV rates fallen, it's great news to put a foot down against what has killed millions all around the world.

"Today we have the tools we need to lay the groundwork to end the AIDS epidemic," Michel Sidibe, UNAIDS's executive director, said in the report. Still, "in several countries that have experienced significant declines in new HIV infections, disturbing signs have emerged of increases in sexual risk behaviors among young people."

The messages to use condoms while having sex rather than wearing no protection at all, hasn't got through as much as planned, according to the report.

Worldwide, 2.3 million people were newly infected with the AIDS-causing virus last year, compared with 3.4 million in 2001, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, or UNAIDS, wrote in a report today. AIDS-related deaths fell 30 percent to 1.6 million last year from the peak in 2005, the Geneva-based agency said.

Investments have been made to help fight the battle against HIV.  Last year, $18.9 billion compared with $3.8 billion in 2002, has been used by mostly low-and-middle-income countries.