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  • A person is newly infected with HIV every 12 seconds.

  • 2.7 million people were newly infected with HIV in 2007.

  • 370,000 children under 15 were newly infected with HIV in 2007.

  • 2 million people died of HIV/AIDS in 2007, nearly 5,500 each day.

  • Nearly 60% of adults living with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa are women.

  • One projection estimates that by delivering comprehensive HIV prevention to those who need it, annual HIV incidence would be nearly two-thirds lower in 2015.


 
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