Fact File

• AIDS kills two million people in Africa a year, ten times more than war.
• In developed countries the HIV infection rate amongst the adult population is less than 1%. In South Africa, it is 20%, with 1,500 more people being infected every day.
• A South African teenager today only has a 50/50 chance of living to old age.
• Over 1,000 children worldwide die each day as a result of AIDS.
• By the end of 2000, over 13 million children had been orphaned by HIV and AIDS.
• In one study in South Africa, 60% of both men and women had never used a condom.

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