Global AIDS and HIV statistics. Situation in Africa, Uganda, Russia, India, Ukraine, China. How AIDS is being tackled. HIV seroprevalence rates and HIV prevention. How many people have AIDS? How many with AIDS are alive and how many have died? Numbers of people alive with HIV are relatively stable. Antiviral treatment -- no cure or vaccine yet. Access to treatment, discrimination, gender issues, workplace victimisation, community support. Health care inequalities and injustice. Comment by Dr Patrick Dixon, physician, futurist, author of two books on AIDS, founder of the AIDS agency ACET, leading authority on global trends and conference speaker.