STATISTICS: A challenge

• Number of people living with HIV in 2005: 40.3-million
  Adults: 38-million
  Women: 17.5-million
  Children under 15 years: 2.3-million

• People newly infected with HIV in 2005: 4.9-million
  Adults : 4.2-million
  Children under 15 years: 700 000

• AIDS deaths in 2005: 3.1-million
  Adults: 2.6-million
  Children under 15 years: 570 000
  
  
  Source: AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2005