[Promotional Materials, International Conference on AIDS (13th : 2000 : Durban, South Africa)]

ELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION
HIV/AIDS FACTS & FIGURES
* 1,800 children are infected with HIV each day worldwide according to recent estimates.
HHS News- U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services 7/14/99.
* More than 33.6 million people are infected with HIV worldwide and 1.2 million of them are
children.
AIDS Epidemic Update: December 1999 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
* Worldwide, 16.3 million people have died of AIDS since the beginning of epidemic, 3.6 million of
them were children..
AIDS Epidemic Update: December 1999 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
* Experts predict that more people will die of AIDS in the next decade than have died in all the
wars of the 20' century.
UNAIDS Security Council Session on AIDS Crisis- January 10, 2000 New York Times
* 95% of people with HIV live in the developing world.
AIDS Epidemic Update: December 1999 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
* Life expectancy at birth in southern Africa, which rose from 44 years in the early 1905s to 59 in the
early 1990s, is expected to drop to just 45 between 2000 and 2010 because of AIDS.
AIDS Epidemic Update: December 1999 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
* Every day, 7,000 people 10-24 years of age worldwide acquire the virus. This translates into five
young people every minute or 2.6 million infections a year.
Report from UNAIDS April 22, 1998.
* Worldwide, more than half of all new HIV infections acquired after infancy occur among young
people 10-24 years old.
AIDS Epidemic Update: December 1999 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
* As early as the year 2010, the global number of infants and children under 15 who have lost their
mother or both parents to AIDS will reach 40 million.
CDC Prevention News 8/24/99
* It is estimated that half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. are among people under 25.
AIDS Epidemic Update: December 1999 UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
* Every year, 3 million American teenagers acquire a sexually transmitted disease, leaving them
more susceptible to HIV infection.
Alan Guttmacher Institute. Sex and America's Teenagers. New York: AGI, 1994.
* In the U.S., it is estimated that 2 adolescents are infected with HIV each hour.
Youth Report 1996- White House Office of National AIDS Policy
* This epidemic disproportionately affects children of color. In 1998, 58% of the children with AIDS
in the U.S. were African American and 23% were Hispanic.
HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vol 11, No 1. June 1999.