Also, delivery systems have been redesigned to better serve individual countries and smaller health centers. And treatments are simpler than in the past.
But the report notes that huge barriers remain in dealing with the AIDS epidemic. Getting patients to stay on their therapy is difficult. There are still large numbers of people who do not get tested for H.I.V. And there are many others who get tested too late and die within months.
The report says price reductions are a main reason why more people with H.I.V., including more pregnant women, are receiving the drugs.
The new report says almost seventy-five percent of people receiving H.I.V. drugs are in Africa. Sixty percent of the people with H.I.V. in Africa are women.
A United Nations report says almost three million people in developing countries are now receiving drugs for H.I.V. This is an increase of almost one million people from two thousand six. Still, the hope was to reach three million by two thousand five.
W.H.O. Director-General Margaret Chan welcomed the progress. But she noted that antiretroviral therapy, or ART, alone will not solve the problem.
The World Health Organization, UNAIDS and UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, released the new report Tuesday.
