Moves to fight Aids have been failing overall with five million more infections reported last year, UNAIDS executive director Peter Piot announced Tuesday.

"It is a failure of reaching infected people, and of treating them," Piot said while releasing the UNAIDS annual report. The report was released ahead of the 15th international Aids conference to be held in Bangkok July 11-16.

Apart from five million new infections, three million died of Aids related causes last year, Piot said. Both the infections and the deaths were the highest reported for a single year.

"We are now entering the globalisation phase of the epidemic," Piot said. "So far the epidemic has been largely in sub-Saharan Africa. But now one in four new infections is being reported in Asia, and the fastest growing epidemic is in Eastern Europe."