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INVESTING IN OUR FUTURE
HIV/AIDS
In the words of United States Secretary of State Colin Powell, AIDS is the number one threat facing the world today.
Learn more from our partners
Joint
UN Programme on
HIV/AIDS
Kaiser Family Foundation
World Bank
Document:
UNAIDS
HIV/AIDS has killed more than 25 million people worldwide.
8,000 people die every day of AIDS-related causes, the equivalent of 42 Boeing 747s crashing daily.
The developing world loses US $66 billion in GDP every year due to HIV/AIDS.
28,000,000 people in Sub-Saharan Africa are living with HIV, nearly the population of Canada.
Around 11,000,000 children in sub-Saharan Africa have lost at least one parent to AIDS.
By 2010 there could be as many as 20,000,000 AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa.
More than a tenth of South Africa's 45,000,000 people are HIV positive which equals almost 1,000 deaths per day in the country.
4,600,000 people are expected to carry HIV by the end of 2004 in India.