the quick facts

HIV/AIDS - Part II:

HIV/AIDS in Africa:
- 25.8 million people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa
- sub-Saharan Africa has only 10% of the world’s population, yet has over 60% of new infections
- 77% of new infections in women
- Out of the 15 million AIDS orphans in the world, 95% of them are living in Africa
- Only one in ten Africans who currently needs antiretroviral treatment for HIV is receiving it


Since its discovery 25 years ago in 1981 HIV/AIDS has:
- Claimed the lives of over 25 million people
- Roughly 40 million people infected and living with HIV/AIDS
- 14,000 new infections each day
- 5 million new infections each year (estimated)
- 64% of all people living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa
- There were 13 million AIDS orphans living in sub-Saharan (South & South East Asia are second worst affected with 15%)
- AIDS accounts for the deaths of 500,000 children in Africa
- Two-thirds of HIV/AIDS infections in Asia occur in India


According to the latest figures published in the UNAIDS/WHO 2006 AIDS Epidemic Update:
- 39.5 million people are living with HIV (estimated)
- 4.3 million new infections in 2006
- 2.8 million (65%) new infections occurring in sub-Saharan Africa
- Increases in Eastern Europe and Central Asia rates have risen by more than 50% since 2004
- In 2006, 2.9 million people died of AIDS-related illnesses.
- Of the 2.9 million deaths, 2.1 million of thiose occurred in sub-Saharan Africa