- Since the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in 1983, more than 25 million people have died from this deadly disease.
- Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned by AIDS.
- More than 12 million African children and 15 million children worldwide have lost one or both parents to AIDS.
- By 2010, it's projected that more than 25 million children worldwide will be orphaned by AIDS.
- There are 14,000 new HIV infections each day: around 2,000 of those daily infections are in children younger than 15 years of age and 6,000 are in young people ages 15-24.
- Currently, 38.6 million people in the world live with HIV; 24.5 million of those live in sub-Saharan Africa.
- 2.3 million children younger than 15 years of age live with HIV.
- Nine out of 10 children living with AIDS are African.
- 95 percent of all those who are HIV positive live in developing countries.
- Females are 12-20 percent more vulnerable to HIV transmission than males of the same ages.
- Every minute a child under 15 dies of an AIDS-related illness.
- In 2005, there were 2.8 million AIDS-related deaths.
- Globally, antiretroviral drugs only reach 1 in 5 who need them.
Sources: The Skeptics Guide to the Global AIDS Crisis, UNICEF, unaids.org
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