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   The number of new HIV cases worldwide has decreased significantly over the last decade - but in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena), however, it is a different story. The world has come a long way since the peak of the HIV/Aids epidemic - which has so far claimed more than 40 million lives - in 1996. Between 2010 and 2021,  the global number of new HIV infections has decreased by 32% . Although the Mena region has the lowest HIV burden in the world, the number of new infections increased by 33% in that same period. That made it one of only three regions in the world - along with Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Latin America - where HIV is still on the rise.  While the increase could be seen as the result of wider HIV testing in the Mena region, experts suggest that the issue is more complicated. "The positive cases we are discovering via increased testing are not old cases. They are newly infected people, which shows that we are failing in stopping the sprea...