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SA Statistics

- Local doctors estimate that there are 2 million orphans due to AIDS in South Africa.

- Aid groups estimate that some 38,000 children are trapped in sex trade in South Africa.

- 70,000 babies are born with HIV every year in South Africa.

- UNICEF reports that 5.5 million people are living with AIDS/HIV in South Africa, the highest number of any country in the world.

- In Sub-Saharan Africa six people are infected with HIV every minute. Another six die every minute because of the devastating disease.

- Sub-Saharan Africa has just over 10 percent of the world's population, yet they have more than two-thirds of the people currently living with AIDS.

-1 out of 4 High School students in South Africa is infected with HIV.

-Women and girls are six times more likely to be infected with the AIDS virus than men.


- South Africa currently has an unemployment rate of 25.3% (compared to 9.6% in the U.S.) http://www.statssa.gov.za/, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm