Thursday, December 01, 2005

World AIDS Day

HIV and AIDS around the World

People living with HIV and AIDS 40.3 million
Adults 38.0 million
Women 17.5 million
Children under 15 2.3 million

New HIV cases in 2005 4.9 million
Adults 4.2 million
Children under 15 700,000

AIDS deaths in 2005 3.1 million
Adults 2.6 million
Children under 15 570,000

Total HIV cases to date 64.3 million

Total AIDS deaths to date 23.1 million
All figures from UNAIDS AIDS Epidemic Update 2005

1 Comments:

At 7:51 PM, Blogger Michele said...

I think it's very sad that I didn't even know it was World AIDS day until it was almost over . . .

 

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