• 2.9 million people died of AIDS in 2003
– 800,000 children under age 15 died in 2002
• 4.8 million people were newly infected in 2003
– 15,000 new infections per day
approximately 16.8 million are women and 3.4 million are less than 15 years
old.[116] It resulted in about 1.6 million deaths in 2012, down from a peak of 2.2 million in 2005.
The estimated number of people living with HIV/AIDS by country as of 2008.
Global AIDS:
The number of people living with HIV is increasing unabated
Around 1% of adults (15-49) are HIV positive globaly
Global AIDS
Global AIDS: The Health and Human Rights Crisis of our Generation
• 37.8 million people worldwide are living with HIV
– 3.2 million are children under the age of 15
Story 3
An Aids orphan's story
Teddy lives in a village in southern Uganda. Her parents died of AIDS-related illnesses when she was 11. She now lives with her three brothers and sisters and helps to look after three other boys whose parents also died of AIDS-related illnesses. “My mother and father died in 1996. My father died in the hospital. But I saw my
mother die here. Because I was a bit older than the others, I looked after her.
St-year-old Ntombi cries as she recounts being raped eight months earlier by a family friend. Ntombi received
smuggled AIDS medication immediately after her assault and has
• Over 20 million people have died of AIDS since 1981
Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS is a global pandemic. As of 2012, approximately 35.3 million people
HIV/AIDS.
3,000 dead every month in South Africa
In rural, HIV-ridden South Africa, one would expect
a place consumed by the AIDS pandemic: the
country has more HIV carriers than any other
nation in the world, with 4.7 million people
infected. But in December, South Africans were
consumed with something besides the disease
that keeps killing family, friends and neighbors.
listen to the stories…
Story 1
This is a photo of a 24 year old girl named Leah. Her blank
expression hardly masks her fear. Fearing she was exposed to
HIV after being gang-raped 15 hours earlier, she stares silently as she waits for a rape exam at the Themba Public Hospital in Mpumalanga. The rape allegedlly occurred December 25, 2001. She does not know yet whether she has been exposed to
since tested negative for HIV. Millions of South Africans, however, are infected with HIV, and September 11 has done little to draw the
world's attention to the national epidemic.
have HIV worldwide with the number of new infections that year being about 2.3 million. This is down from 3.1 million new infections in 2001. Of these