world aids day

AIDS is a killer disease:

• The HIV virus infects 13,500 people every day.


• At the end of 2004, 37.2 million adults and 2.2 million children were infected - 95% of these live in the developing world.


• In 2004, 3.1 million people died of AIDS. On average, somebody dies every 10 seconds.


• 25 million people have died since AIDS was first diagnosed in 1981 - 6 million of these were children.


• More than 15 million children have been orphaned by AIDS.


• AIDS is preventable; but apathy is lethal. Find out what you can do to make a difference. Act now.