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The World Health Organization and United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS report that, as of December 2001, an estimated 40 million people are infected with HIV worldwide, including 3 million children under age 15.
• Around the world, an estimated 19,000 people become HIV-infected every day.
• There were 3 million deaths by the end of 2001 related to HIV.
• There were 5 million people newly infected by the end of 2001.
• There are more than 28.5 million sub-Saharan Africans infected and an average of 5,500 Africans dying every day of AIDS-related illnesses.
• By 2010, there will be an estimated 40 million children in the world orphaned by HIV/AIDS.
• In the United States, AIDS is the second leading cause of death among all Americans ages 25-44.
• AIDS now has killed five times more Americans than were killed in the Vietnam War.
• Deaths due to HIV have declined in the U.S., but infection rates keep rising. New infections are particularly on the rise among heterosexuals, youth, women and people of color.
• Fifty percent of all new HIV infections in the U.S. occur in people under the age of 25, 50 percent are among African-Americans and more than 50 percent are among women. Every hour, two Americans under age 20 become infected.
• As of March 2003, there were a total of 11,021 reported cases of HIV infection and/or AIDS in Indiana, with nearly 3,977 AIDS-related deaths reported to date.
• African-Americans represent 8 percent of Indiana's population but more than 33 percent of reported cases of HIV infection.
Source: www.aidsfortwayne.org
