HIV Statistics

• The HIV/AIDS epidemic has already claimed over 20 million lives.
• More than 40 million people worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS.
• In 2005 more than 4.9 million people worldwide were infected with HIV.
• Each day 14,000 more people become newly infected with HIV.
• Ten people per minute contract HIV.
• Youth are most at risk for contracting HIV and most are unaware that they are carrying the virus.
• More that half of the newly infected with HIV/AIDS are young people, between 15 and 24 years old.
• AIDS is the leading cause of death among those aged 15-59 worldwide. 
• AIDS is not a gay issue only.  Worldwide, women constitute about half of all people living with HIV.
• Over the past two years, the number of women and girls infected with HIV has increased in every region of the world, with rates rising particularly rapidly in Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America.
• 15 million children living today have been orphaned due to AIDS, having long one or both parents to the epidemic.
• AIDS kills one child every minute.