- Local doctors estimate that there are 2 million orphans due to AIDS 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.
Those statistics are staggering.
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