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More than 20 million men, women and children have died from AIDS.

UNAIDS

 

 

90 percent of HIV-positive children were infected during birth or breastfeeding.

UNFPA

 

 

Public education and prevention campaigns in Uganda cut HIV infection rates from 14% of adults in the early 1990's to 5% in 2001.

DATA

 

 

Just $1 of medicine can save a baby from contracting HIV/AIDS at birth.

DATA

 

 

88 percent of HIV/AIDS patients who are sick enough to need treatment do not have access to life-saving medication.

DATA

 

 

Evidence shows that Africans taking the life-saving anti-retroviral drugs adhere to their regimens much better than Americans or Europeans -- the success rate is about 90%.

DATA

 

 

Half of the 15-year-olds living in South Africa and Zimbabwe today will eventually die of AIDS.

Independent Online, South Africa

 

 

1 in 50 New Yorkers is infected with HIV.

Momentum AIDS Project

 

 

76 percent of young people in sub-Saharan Africa living with HIV are female.

PUSH Journal

 

 

15 million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS.

New York Times