Global Estimates of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic as of End 1999

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Total
Adults
Women
Children <15 years
Total
Adults
Women
Children <15 years
Total
Adults
Women
Children <15 years
Total
Adults
Women
Children <15 years

AIDS deaths in 1999

5.4 million
4.7 million
2.3 million
620 000
34.3 million
33.0 million
15.7 million
1.3 million
2.8 million
2.3 million
1.2 million
500 000
18.8 million
15.0 million
7.7 million
3.8 million
13.2 million

Total number of AIDS deaths since the
beginning of the epidemic

Total number of AIDS orphans2 since the beginning of the epidemic

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North America
900 000
Caribbean
360 000

Western Europe
520000
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&Central Asia
420 000 East Asia & Pacific
Africa 530 000
4ill I. 530 000

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220 000
sub-Saharan
Africa
24.5 million

South
& South-East Asia
5.6 million
Australia
& New Zealand

Latin America
1.3 million

15000. ~Adults and children living with HIV/AIDS -total: 34.3 million
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