The truth about HIV/AIDS:

  • 33 million people living with HIV
  • 2.0 million HIV-related deaths in 2007
  • 25 million deaths worldwide since the onset of HIV and AIDS
  • Approximately 5,500 AIDS related deaths per day
  • 2.7 million people newly infected with HIV in 2007
  • 45% of all new HIV infections are in young people 15-24 years of age
  • 90% of children living with HIV in 2007 live in sub-Saharan Africa
  • 2 million children under the age of 15 are infected with HIV
  • 77% of all women living with HIV/AIDS are in sub-Saharan Africa

"What is wrong with the world? People are dying in numbers that are the stuff of science fiction. Millions of human beings are at risk. Communities, families, mothers, fathers, children are like shards of humanity caught in a maelstrom of destruction... is that not enough to ignite the conscience of the world?"

- Stephen Lewis­