The Magnitude
77.3 million people have become infected with HIV since the start of the epidemic.
36.9 million people globally were living with HIV in 2017.
35.4 million people have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the epidemic.
In sub-Saharan Africa, 75% of new infections among adolescents aged 15–19 years are in girls. Young women aged 15–24 years are twice as likely to be living with HIV than men.
The Urgency
Last year, 1.8 million people were newly infected and 940,000 people lost their lives due to AIDS-related illnesses.
Every week, around 7000 young women aged 15–24 years become infected with HIV
Every day 5,000 people are newly infected with HIV. 2,500 or 50% of this are youth.
Every four minutes 3 women are newly infected with HIV.
The True Killer
We live in a time where medical advancements the treatment and prevention of HIV can halt new HIV infections and eradicate all AIDS related mortality. Still in 2017, nearly 1 million lives were lost to this virus and 1.8 million people were newly infections.
The greatest threat in the war against HIV/AIDS is stigma.