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Global
- 33.2 million people now live with HIV or AIDS.
- In 2007, approximately 2.5 million people were infected with HIV.
- Every day, over 6800 people become infected with HIV - almost five people per minute.
- 5700 people die from AIDS every day.
- One child dies every minute.
- 15 million children around the world have been orphaned by AIDS, losing one or both parents to the disease.
- Every fifteen seconds, another person age 15-24 becomes infected with HIV/AIDS.
US
- Roughly one million people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States.
- Since the start of the AIDS epidemic, 1.5 million Americans have been infected with HIV and more than 524,000 have died of AIDS.
- At least 40,000 people are infected each year.
- African Americans account for 48% of new HIV infections.
- AIDS is the leading cause of death for African American women aged 25 to 34 and HIV rates among Hispanic women are increasing.
- The number of women living with HIV has tripled in the last two decades.
- At least half of all new infections are among people under the age of 25.
- Washington, DC has the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rates in the United States - one in 20 people are living with HIV or AIDS.
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