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(facts from 2006)

• Each day nearly 8,500 people die due to AIDS
• HIV infections are found in every country in the world
• Nine out of ten children living with HIV and AIDS are African
• Nearly 6,000 young people between the ages of 15 and 25 are infected every day!
• Globally, unprotected sex between men and women is the predominant mode of transmission of HIV
• India now has an estimated 5.7 million! people living with HIV/AIDS, making it the country with the greatest number of infections in the world.
• Of the 950,000 people living with HIV in the US, as many as a quarter do not know they are infected!
• About 40,000 new HIV infections occur each year in the US.
• Adults and children estimated to be living with HIV in 2005:
• - North America: 1.2 Million
• - Caribbean: 300,000
• - Latin America: 1.8 Million
• - Western & Central Europe: 720,000
• - North Africa & Middle East: 510,000
• - Sub-Saharan Africa: 25.8 Million
• - Eastern Europe & Central Africa: 1.6 Million
• - East Asia: 870,000
• - South & South-East Asia: 7.4 Million
• - Oceania: 74,000
• AIDS is the first epidemic of a new disease since the 1400's