Thursday, December 4, 2008

AIDS

More than 25 million people have died of AIDS since 1981 and there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. Some 2.5 million people became newly infected with the virus during 2007. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35.

Around 95% of people with HIV/AIDS live in developing nations including an estimated 22 million people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa. An estimated 1.7 million people in sub-Saharan Africa became newly infected in 2007.
Source: UNAIDS, AVERT

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