New figures from the United Nations show HIV infection is on the rise: 39.5 million people are infected with HIV around the world, up more than 2.5 million from two years ago.

UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot: “Most of these new infections, nearly two-thirds were in Sub-Saharan Africa alone, but the biggest increase in new infections are in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, I mean, relatively speaking, where we see an increase by 50 percent in infection rates since 2004—in other words, two years ago.”

Eleven thousand people, or one person every eight seconds, contract HIV on a daily basis.