Facts on HIV/AIDS

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Facts on HIV/AIDS

Important Facts about AIDS

Worldwide

An estimated 33.4 million people worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS in 2008 and 31.3 million of these were Adults.

In 2008, it was estimated that 15.7 million of those living with HIV/AIDS are women.

An estimated 2.1 million children worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS in 2008.

In 2008 an estimated 2.7 million people were newly infected with HIV worldwide and 430,000 of these were children.

Estimated AIDS deaths in 2008 were 2.0 million and 280,000 were children.

More than 25 million people have died of AIDS since 1981.

At the end of 2008, women accounted for 50% of all adults living with HIV worldwide.

In developing and transitional countries, 9.5 million people are in immediate need of life-saving AIDS drugs; of these, only 4 million (42%) are receiving the drugs.

USA

It is estimated that more than one million people are living with HIV in the USA and that more than half a million have died after developing AIDS.

At the end of 2007, the CDC estimated that 468,578 people were living with AIDS in America around 20,000 more than 2006.

An estimated total of 56,300 people were newly infected with HIV in 2006 in the United States

African Americans are the racial/ethnic group most affected by HIV. This situation is critical because African Americans comprise only 12% of the population of the United States yet represent 45% of all new HIV infections.

Sources

1. AVERT.org

2. Hall HI, Son R, Rhodes P, et al. Estimation of HIV Incidence in the United States. JAMA, 2008; 300:520-529 (and messaging from this release)

3. CDC. HIV Prevalence Estimates. MMWR, 2008;57:1073-1076 (and messaging from this release)