The truth about HIV/AIDS:

• 40.3 million people living with HIV in 2005
• 25.8 million people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
• 4.9 million people newly infected with HIV in 2005
• 3.1 million AIDS deaths in 2005
• 45 million people will have lost their lives to the disease by 2012
• 77% of all women living with HIV/AIDS are in sub-Saharan Africa
• Only 1 in 10 Africans in need of ARV treatment were receiving it in mid-2005

"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