Useful Statistics on Children and AIDS:

• Every 14 seconds AIDS turns a child into an Orphan. UNAIDS, 2002
• More than 2,000 children are infected with HIV each day worldwide according to recent estimates. Report on the global HIV/AIDS Epidemic: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS
• In 2001, 5 million people were newly infected with HIV - 800,000 of them were children. Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS
• More than 40 million people are infected with HIV worldwide and 2.7 million of them are children. Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS
• Worldwide, approximately 25 million people have died of AIDS since the beginning of epidemic, approximately 5 million of them were children. Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS
• In 2001, 3 million people died of AIDS - 58,000 (approximately 1,600 per day) of them were children. Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS
• Experts predict that more people with HIV live in the developing world. AIDS Epidemic update: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS
• More than 95% of people with HIV live in the developing world. AIDS Epidemic update: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS
• Life expectancy at birth in southern Africa, which rose from 44 years in the early 1950s to 59 in the early 1990s, is expected to drop to just 45 between 2000 and 2010 because of AIDS. AIDS Epidemic update: December 2000 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS
• Recent figures show that women now account for 44% of all the number of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic update: December 2001 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS
• More than 13.2 million children have been orphaned by the AIDS epidemic since it began, and that number is forecast to more than double by 2010. UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS June 2001 - Global Crisis - Global Action
• In 2000, 2.3 million children became orphans (at the rate of 1 every 14 seconds) because of the AIDS - related death of their parents. UNICEF estimates that up to a third of those children were less than five years old. UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS June 2001 - Global Crisis - Global Action