AIDS: focus on Africa
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Facts from UNAIDS ([www.unaids.org/hivaidsinfo](http://www.unaids.org/hivaidsinfo)) and Health Canada

· Number of people infected with HIV worldwide: 40 million

· Percentage who are women: 46%

· Expected death toll between 2000 and 2020 given current control: 68 million

· Number of AIDS orphans worldwide at end of 2001: 14 million

· Percentage of HIV infections occurring in developing countries: 90%

· Number of people infected with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: 28.5 million

· Number who were receiving antiretroviral drugs at end of 2001: < 30 000

· Current life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa: 47 years

· Estimated life expectancy in that region without AIDS: 62 years

· HIV prevalence among pregnant women in urban Botswana in 2001: 44.9%

· The prevalence among those aged 25–29: 55.6%

· HIV prevalence among Kenyan women aged 15–19: 23%

· The prevalence among Kenyan men of the same age: 3.5%

· Expected loss to Zimbabwean workforce because of AIDS by 2020: 30%

· Number of new teachers Swaziland will need over the next 17 years: 13 000

· Number needed if there were no deaths from AIDS: 6000 

· Number of AIDS-related deaths reported in Canada in 1995: 1482

· Number reported in 2001: 81