AIDS and HIV do not discriminate.
3.1 million People lost their lives in 2005.
4.9 million new HIV infections occurred in 2005.
40.3 (36.7- 45.3) million people around the world are living with HIV/AIDS in 2005.
Approximately 11 of every 1,000 adults (ages 15 to 49) are infected with HIV.
3.1 million died of AIDS in 2005.
2.4 million of them in Sub-Saharan Africa.
4.9 million newly HIV infected people in 2005.
3.2 million of them in Sub-Saharan Africa.
More than 15 million children have so far been orphaned by AIDS, 12.3 in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In some African countries as much as 13% of the children are orphaned. An estimated 25 million children will be orphaned by 2010 because of AIDS.
Over 27 million people have died since the first AIDS case was identified in 1980.
UNAIDS predicts that an additional 45 million people will become infected with HIV in 126 low-and middle-income countries by 2010, unless the world succeeds in mounting a drastically expanded, global prevention effort.
96% of people with HIV live in the developing world, most in sub-Saharan Africa.
In some parts of Africa, one-third of all pregnant women have HIV/AIDS. In Swaziland, for example, nearly 40% of pregnant women are HIV-positive.
Adult infection rates in sub-Saharan Africa have reached as high as 37% in Botswana and 39% in Swaziland.
Source:http://www.ubs-goodsamaritan.org/1009
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