Health

Status of the World AIDS Epidemic

  Total Children under
15 years
People newly infected with HIV in 2009 2.6 million 370,000
Number of people living with HIV/AIDS 33.3 million 2.5 million
AIDS deaths in 2009 1.8 million 260,000
Source: World Health Organization, UNAIDS. Web: www.unaids.org.

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