ofHIV has continued to fall, decreasing by 23% from 2010 to 2020, with progress dominated by decreases in Eastern Africa and SouthernAfrica. As of 2023
prisoners. The HIV pandemic is most severe in SouthernAfrica. Over 10% of all people infected with HIV/AIDS reside within the region. Adult HIV prevalence
percent of all people living with HIV and 100 percent of all AIDS deaths in 2011. The countries of Eastern and SouthernAfrica are most affected, leading to
drastically in SouthernAfrica a result ofHIV/AIDS. Speakers of Bantu languages (part of the Niger–Congo family) predominate in southern, central and southeast