Globally
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In 2006 39.5 million adults and children are infected with HIV
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Of these 17.3 million are women
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4.3 million were infected in 2006
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2.9 million died because of AIDS in 2006
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Everyday 1500 children are infected – most of them are newborns
Sub-Saharan Africa
This region currently bears the brunt of the global burden of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and at the same time have the fewest resources to fight the disease.
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24.7 million adults and children are HIV-infected – this is 64% of all infected worldwide
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13.2 million of these are women
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2.8 million were infected in 2006
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2.1 million died because of AIDS in 2006
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In average 5.9 % of the population are infected - In some countries the proportion is as high as 33.4 %
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2 million children under the age of 15 live with HIV and less than one out of ten receive basic care and treatment
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12 million children under the age of 17 have lost one are both parents to AIDS
Asia
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8.6 million are HIV-infected in 2006
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960.000 were infected in 2006
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The number of people receiving the needed treatment have increased more than threefold in the last three years, but still only about 16 % of the total number of people in need of treatment receive it.
Europe and central Asia
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In Central and Southern Europe 740.000 people are HIV infected
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22.000 were infected in 2006
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In Eastern Europe and Central Asia 1.7 million are HIV infected
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270.000 were infected in 2006
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The number of infected have double twenty times in the last 10 years
Resources and Treatment
In 2007 approximately 10 billions dollars are expected to be available for fighting AIDS. It is estimated that 18 billion are needed.
Estimates show that in total 55.1 billion dollars are needed in the period 2006-2010 to stop the spread of HIV and AIDS and to treat the infected.
The Access to treatment varies a lot depending on the region. To day medicine which helps and is life-prolonging is available, but in some regions access is still a problem. Even though more and more get access to medicine and treatment every day, only 24 % of the infected in the middle and low income countries have access to treatment.
World wide less than one in five who are in risk of getting infected have access to prevention. Of the people who would like to get tested only one in eight have the possibility to do so.
Source: UNAIDS