40 million people are estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS.
28.1 million of those people are in Sub-Saharan Africa.
47% of the adults living with HIV or AIDS worldwide are women.
2.7 million children have AIDS (2.4 million in Sub-Saharan Africa).
AIDS caused the deaths of 3 million people in 2001.
21.8 million people have died from AIDS.
Today is World Aids Day.
(data from the UNAID’s latest statistics, all noted as estimates)