Of the 5 million people newly infected with HIV in 2001, almost 6 in 10 were under the age of 25. Those in the age group 15-24 represented 4 in 10 of these new infections.

• Number of people infected during 2003, and the number of deaths
  
• During 2003, some 5 million people became infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS.
  
• The year also saw 3 million deaths from HIV/AIDS - a high global total, despite antiretroviral therapy, which reduced AIDS and AIDS, related deaths in the richer countries. Deaths among those already infected will continue to increase for some years even if prevention programmes manage to cut the number of new infections to zero. However, with the HIV-positive population still expanding the annual number of AIDS deaths can be expected to increase for many years.

· Almost 6,000 young people, ages 15-24, are infected every day with HIV, or approximately one every 15 seconds.
· Every 10 seconds, someone in the world dies from AIDS. There are 11 new HIV infections per minute, worldwide.
·AIDS has orphaned more than 13 million children, and that figure is expected to rise to 25 million by 2010.
·As of December 2002, 29.4 million adults and children were living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. That's more than one out of every 25 men, women and children.
· In seven African countries, one in five adults is living with HIV/AIDS, in 12 African countries the infection rate is higher than 10 percent.
· The rate of new infections among girls is as much as five to six times higher than those of boys in some hard hit countries.