some Figures

Some figures:

• Almost a quarter of people living with HIV/AIDS are between 15 and 25 years old; worldwide this means ten million young people.

• Every day, over 6,000 people between 15-24 years old are infected with HIV/AIDS

• Every twelve seconds a new infection takes place.

• 8,500 people die every day of AIDS related causes.

• Thousands of children lose their parents to HIV/AIDS.

• Only 31% of those in need of AIDS medication actually get it.

• 25 million people have already died of AIDS since 1981. According to the United Nations, this figure will be 280 million in 2050 if we do not act now.

• In 2007 2.1 million people died of an AIDS-related illness.

• 2.5 million new infections in 2007

• 90% of people living with HIV/AIDS live in countries of the Global South! At the end of 2007, women accounted for 50% of all adults living with HIV worldwide, and for 61% living in SUb Sharan Africa.