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Pediatric AIDS Fact Sheet - Statistics on children with HIV/AIDS, nationally and globally.
HIV/AIDS Facts & Figures
1,800 children are infected with HIV each day worldwide according to recent estimates. HHS News- U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services 7/14/99 More than 33.6 million people are infected with HIV worldwide and 1.2 million of them are children. AIDS Epidemic Update: December 1999 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS Worldwide, 16.3 million people have died of AIDS since the beginning of epidemic, 3.6 million of them were children. AIDS Epidemic Update: December 1999 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS Experts predict that more people will die of AIDS in the next decade than have died in all the wars of the 20th century. UNAIDS Security Council Session on AIDS Crisis- January 10, 2000 New York Times 95% of people with HIV live in the developing world. AIDS Epidemic Update: December 1999 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS Life expectancy at birth in southern Africa, which rose from 44 years in the early 1905s to 59 in the early 1990s, is expected to drop to just 45 between 2000 and 2010 because of AIDS. AIDS Epidemic Update: December 1999 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS Every day, 7,000 people 10-24 years of age worldwide acquire the virus. This translates into five young people every minute or 2.6 million infections a year. Report from UNAIDS April 22, 1998 Worldwide, more than half of all new HIV infections acquired after infancy occur among young people 10-24 years old. AIDS Epidemic Update: December 1999 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS As early as the year 2010, the global number of infants and children under 15 who have lost their mother or both parents to AIDS will reach 40 million. CDC Prevention News 8/24/99 It is estimated that half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. are among people under 25. AIDS Epidemic Update: December 1999 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS This epidemic disproportionately affects children of color. In 1998, 58% of the children with AIDS in the U.S. were African American and 23% were Hispanic. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vol 11, No 1. June 1999. Recent figures show that women now account for 32% of all newly identified HIV positive cases in the U.S. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vol 11, No 1. June 1999 Recent figures show that women now account for 44% of all the number of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. AIDS Epidemic Update: December 1999 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS AIDS is ranked as the third cause of death among African-American women ages 25-44. National Vital Statistics Reports- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vol. 47, No. 25. October 5, 1999. Women of color represent more than three-fourths (76%) of AIDS cases reported to date among women in the U.S. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vol 11, No 1. June 1999 Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization.
Updated 17 May 2000
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