Facts from Around the World

• Children

  • Half of all the world's children are at risk.

  • 40.3 million people are now living with HIV, with one child dying of an AIDS-related illness every minute.

  • In 2000, 1.31 million babies were aborted in the USA alone - worldwide, there are approximately 46 million abortions per year.

  • Around the world, over a billion children live in severe deprivation. Many lack clean water, vaccines, nutritious food, and education.

  • Over 15 million children have already been orphaned by AIDS: less than 10% of them receive public support services.

  • Over 1 million children are forced into the commercial sex trade each year.

• AIDS

  • AIDS-related illness has killed more than 25 million people since 1981.

  • Every day more than 6,000 children are orphaned by AIDS. A third of these children are under five years old.

  • There are 40.3 million people in the world today with HIV - that's more than double the number in 1995.

  • 3.1 million people died because of AIDS-related illness in 2005 and 4.9 million people became infected.

  • More than 500,000 children (aged under 15) were among the AIDS-related deaths in 2005 and 700,000 children were newly infected with the virus.

  • More than 95% of all people living with HIV are in the developing world, and 95% of all deaths from AIDS-related illnesses have happened in the developing world.

  • Only 1 out of 10 HIV positive people in Africa and 1 out of 7 in Asia have access to antiretroviral treatment.

  • Only 1 out of every 10 people living with HIV has been tested and actually knows that he or she is positive.