Next, two takes on AIDS today here and around the world. We begin with a global progress report more than three decades after the first cases were reported. Gwen Ifill has that. When researchers, political leaders and advocates gather in Washington next week for the world's largest AIDS meeting, there will be something new on the agenda: optimism. AIDS deaths have declined. The rate of new infections among children is falling, and more than eight million people in poor and middle income countries are receiving crucial lifesaving drugs. But the global picture remains grim. Worldwide, more than 34 million people have HIV, 23 million of them in sub Saharan Africa. Last year, 1.7 million people died from the disease. And millions still can not get the drugs they need. Michel Sidibe is the director of UNAIDS, which just issued the latest report on all this. And he joins me now. Thank you for joining us. Thank you very much. The new numbers, do they show that we 're turning the tide in this crisis? You know, I think we are breaking the backbone of this epidemic. It is the first time that we can say that we have 56 countries worldwide who have stabilized, even reduced significantly the number of new infection. We are seeing also a prevention revolution working.Young people are taking the responsibility, changing their behavior. And we 're seeing a reduction by almost 25 percent amongst those young people, even 50 percent in a country like South Africa,
