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A Few Facts About AIDS
• Two-thirds of new cases of AIDS in developing countries are among those aged 15 to 24. Of that group, almost two-thirds are women.• Some 14 million children are already AIDS orphans, and there are 800,000 more each year.
• By 2010, 25 million children will be orphaned when their parents die of AIDS or a related malady.
• Africa has been hardest hit by the AIDS pandemic.
• The Caribbean has the second-highest infection rate with 250,000 AIDS orphans; 200,000 of them are in Haiti.
• As the number of HIV-infected women grows to 50 percent of all AIDS victims, the worldwide effect on children will exacerbate.
