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- In 2002 over 13,000 people became HIV positive every
day
- In 2002 over 8,000 people died from HIV related illness every
day
- Almost 70% of the world's people living with HIV are in Africa
- More than 90% of Africans are not HIV positive
These figures are from the UNAIDS epidemic update Dec 2002
- In 2002 about 1% of the people in sub-Saharan Africa
in need of antiretroviral treatment had access to it
- Globally, more than 14 million children have lost one
or both parents to HIV/AIDS. This is projected to increase to 25
million
by 2010.
These figures are from UNAIDS press release - 22 Sept 2003
- Average life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa is now
47 years - it would have been 62 years without HIV/AIDS.
These figures are from UNAIDS report on global AIDS epidemic,
July 2002
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