| HIV/AIDS |
HIV/AIDS
is having devastating impact on the worlds youngest and most vulnerable
citizens. Since researchers first identified HIV/AIDS 20 years
ago, more than 21.8 million people around the world have died
(by the end of 2001) from the the disease. An estimated 42 million
people are living with HIV today, including almost 3 million children
under age 15. HIV Infects an additional 16,000 people every day,
in 2003 alone it is estimated 5 Million people were infected with
virus globally. |
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The
HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has already orphaned a
generation of children and now seems set to orphan generations
more. It is estimated that nearly three quarters of the worlds
people living with HIV/AIDS live in Sub-Saharan Africa. By the
end of 2002, over 29 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa were
living with HIV/AIDS, of those, 10 million were young people (aged
15-24) and almost 3 million were children under 15. |
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| Global
Facts and figures about HIV/AIDS |
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estimates end - 2003 both Children and Adults |
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· People living
with HIV/AIDS...................................... 42 Million
· New HIV infections....................................................
5.0 Million
· Deaths due to HIV/AIDS in 2003.................................
3.1 Million
· Cumulative number of deaths
· due to HIV/AIDS until end of 2001.............................21.8
Million |
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| Sub-Saharan
Africa |
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By the end of 2002, over 29 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa
were living with HIV/AIDS, 10 million were young people between
15-25, 3 million children under 15.
· In 2002 alone, about 2 million adults died of HIV/AIDS.
· More than 11 million Children under the age of 15 in
Sub-Saharan Africa have have lost atlist one parent to HIV/AIDS,
34 million Children have been orphaned over all.
· 8 % of all the world's Children Orphaned by HIV/AIDS
reside in Sub-Saharan Africa
· The percentage of the region's Orphans whose parents
died from HIV/AIDS increased from 3.5% in 1990 to 32% in 2001 |
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| Future
Global HIV/AIDS Projections |
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Current projections suggest that, by 2006, an additional 45 million
people
· By 2010, HIV/AIDS will have robbed an estimated 20 million
children under the age of 15 of one or both parents |
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- Uganda and
HIV/AIDS Success Story! |
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- HIV/AIDS
Education, Awareness and Prevention Campaigns |
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- HIV/AIDS
and the young people |
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- School
Outreach Programs AYM |
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- HIV/AIDS
and the Bible |
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- HIV/AIDS
Has Created an Orphan Crisis |
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