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It can be difficult to put things into perspective - these statistics and projections give you an idea of the situation the world is facing regarding HIV/AIDS.
By the end of 2005, 40.3 million people were living with HIV/AIDS
Of these, 17.5 million were women and 2.3 million children under the age of 15.
4.9 million people became newly infected with HIV in 2005
Of these, 3.2 million new infections occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa, and 700,000 were children.
In 2005 alone, a total of 3.1 million people died of HIV/AIDS-related causes.
World-wide, only one in ten persons infected with HIV has been tested and knows his/her HIV status.
Global Disparity
Global trends of infection emerging from the HIV/AIDS pandemic:
Ninety-six percent of people with HIV live in the developing world, most in sub-Saharan Africa. The epidemic continues to grow in this region, with nearly a million new infections between 2003 and 2005.
In some African countries, three quarters of those infected are women - many of whom have not had more than one sexual partner.
An estimated 5 to 6 million people in low- and middle-income countries will die in the next two years if they do not receive antiretroviral treatment (ART). At the end of 2005, only one in seven Asians and one in ten Africans who needed ART were receiving it.
In six African countries, (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe), more than one in five of all pregnant women have HIV/AIDS. In Swaziland, nearly 40% of pregnant women are HIV-positive.
Without prevention efforts, 35% of children born to an HIV positive mother will become infected with HIV. At least a quarter of newborns infected with HIV die before age one, and up to 60% will die before reaching their second birthdays.
Injecting drug use and commercial sex work are fueling the epidemic across Asia and Eastern Europe, and few countries are sufficiently reaching out to these marginalized groups or addressing the poverty that often underlies these behaviors.
Discrimination against vulnerable groups is evident in the Russian Federation, where more than 90% of the estimated one million people living with HIV were infected through injecting drug use, but represent only 13% of those receiving antiretroviral therapy.
