ALDO fights AIDS

A total of 33 million people now live with HIV/AIDS, 2 million of them are under the age of 15.
In 2007, an estimated 2.7 million people were infected with HIV, 370,000 were under the age of 15.
Every day 7,397 people contract HIV, 308 per hour.
Young people 15-24 account for an estimated 45 percent of new HIV infections.
In 2007, 2.0 million people died from AIDS, 270,000 of them were under the age of 15.
15 million children around the world have lost one or both of their parents to HIV/AIDS since the onset of the pandemic
More than two-thirds (67 percent) of all people living with HIV, 22 million, live in sub-Saharan Africa
90% of all HIV-infected children live in Sub-Saharan Africa
Worldwide, women constitute close to half of all people living with HIV/AIDS, almost 15 million in total.
Globally and in every region, more adult women (15 years or older) than ever before are now living with HIV.
Women are at least twice as likely to acquire HIV from men during sexual intercourse than vice versa.
Only 20% of young women aged 15 to 24 correctly identify ways of preventing HIV transmission and reject major misconceptions about HIV transmission.
Fewer than 8% of pregnant women are currently offered services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, women constitute 61% of all people living with HIV/AIDS, a figure that rises to 76% among young people aged 15 to 24.
According to a four city study in India, almost 90% of HIV-positive women were infected with HIV by their husbands.
HIV was the leading cause of death for African-American women aged 25-34 years in 2004.
The number of women living with HIV has tripled in the last two decades; by 2005, 26% of people living with HIV were women.
Almost half of all new infections are among people under the age of 25.
Women account for more than one in four new HIV/AIDS diagnoses and deaths caused by AIDS.
The proportion of AIDS diagnoses reported among women has more than tripled since 1985.