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Get the facts about HIV and AIDS and how it affects children and their families.

• Sub-Saharan Africa is home to more than 70 percent of the total world HIV-positive population.

• Of the estimated 2.3 million of children under 15 living with HIV, 2 million live in sub-Saharan Africa. 
 
• Of the estimated 4.1 million people newly infected with HIV in 2005, some 540,000 were children under 15.

• In 2005, an estimated 2.8 million people died of AIDS-related causes. Approximately 380,000 of these were children under 15.

• Currently, less than 10 percent of HIV-positive children in need of treatment are being treated.

• Approximately 15.2 million children under age 18 have lost one or both parents to AIDS. Of these, 12 million live in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Each day, 1,500 children worldwide become infected with HIV, the vast majority of them newborns.
 
• To date about 65 million people have been infected with HIV, and AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since it was first recognized in 1981.

• About 17.3 million women comprise nearly half the total number of people living with HIV, and 76 percent (13.2 million) of women with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Sub-Saharan Africa remains the most affected region in the world. Two-thirds of all people living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa; in 2005, 24.5 million people there were living with HIV. 
 
• Africa is home to 69 percent of the AIDS-infected population and has only 1.8 percent of the world's health-care workers.

• In 2005, 40.3 million people were living with HIV.

• More than 10 percent of the 40.3 million people living with AIDS were from new infections in 2005 — and half of that 10 percent are children.

• Less than 10 percent of HIV-positive pregnant women receive drug therapies to prevent the transmission of HIV to their infants.

• About 11,000 new HIV infections occur daily worldwide. Of those, 50 percent are women and more than 40 percent are young people ages 15-24.

 Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned by AIDS.

• Approximately 9.8 million young people, ages 15-24, are living with HIV/AIDS.

Sources:
www.one.org, www.unicef.org, www.unaids.org, www.thedatareport.org



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