1. The Cold Hard Facts… World Wide HIV/AIDS
Bell Ringer: Is people’s fear about AIDS/HIV founded?

2. Facts… Break down of people living with HIV/AIDS Worldwide in 2007=
33.0 million
Adults=30.8 million million
Women living with HIV/AIDS 15.5 million
Children living with HIV/AIDS in 2.0
Newly infected with HIV 2.7 million
Children newly 0.37 million
AIDS deaths 2.0 million
Child AIDS deaths in 0.27 million

3. Reality Check
More than 25 million people have died of AIDS since 1981.
Africa has 11.6 million AIDS orphans.
At the end of 2007, women accounted for 50% of all adults living with HIV worldwide, and for 59% in sub-Saharan Africa.
Young people (under 25 years old) account for half of all new HIV infections worldwide.
In developing and transitional countries, 9.7 million people are in immediate need of life-saving AIDS drugs; of these, only 2.99 million (31%) are receiving the drugs.

4. Global Trends (8 million to 33 million)
                                                                                                                                                         

5. Region
Adults Children Living
Adults/Children Newly Infected
Adult Prevalence
Deaths of Adults and Children
Sub-Sahara Africa
22 Million
1.9 Million
5.0%
1.5 Million
North Africa/ the Middle East
380,000
40,000
0.3%
37,000
Asia
5 million
Oceania
74, 000
13,000
0.4%
1,000
Latin America
1.7 Million
140,000
0.5%
63,000
Caribbean
230,000
20,000
1.1%
14,000
East Europe/Central Asia
110,000
0.8%
58,000
North America/ Central/West Europe
2.0 Million
81,000
31,000
Global Total
33 Million
2.7 Million

6. World Wide Pandemic