A total of 33 million people now live with HIV/AIDS. Two million of them are
under the age of 15.
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In 2008, an estimated 2.7 million people were infected with HIV.
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Every day 7,397 people contract HIV—308 every hour.
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In 2008, 2.0 million people died from AIDS.
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More than two-thirds (67 percent) of all people living with HIV, 22 million,
live in sub-Saharan Africa—including 90 percent of the world’s
HIV-positive children.
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Globally, men who have sex with men are 19 times more likely to be infected with
HIV than the general population.
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Worldwide, women make up half of all people living with HIV.
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There are approximately 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S.
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An estimated 56,300 new HIV infections occurred in the U.S. in 2006.
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African Americans accounted for 46% of new HIV infections diagnosed in 2006,
although they comprise only 12% of the population.
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Men who have sex with men (MSM) accounted for 53% of all HIV/AIDS cases diagnosed
in 2006. A third of these MSM were younger than 30 years old.
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The number of women living with HIV in the U.S. has tripled in the last two decades;
by 2005, 26% of people living with HIV were women.
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Sources: UNAIDS, AIDS
Epidemic Update, 2009; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
amfAR, MSM,
HIV, and the Road to Universal Access—How Far Have We Come?, August 2008.
