Global HIV/AIDS in Numbers

• An estimated 34 million people worldwide are living with HIV, most in sub-Saharan Africa (UNAIDS, 2010)
• The rate of new HIV infections is going down, but millions still occur each year
• Each year, hundreds of thousands of children are infected with HIV
• Recent breakthroughs now point the way to stop new infections, keep more people alive, and finally turn the tide in the 30-year AIDS epidemic
• CDC plays a key role in the global fight against HIV/AIDS
• CDC helped support life-saving drug treatment for more than 3.9 million men, women, and children (PEPFAR, as of 9/30/2011)
• CDC helped support HIV testing and counseling for more than 9.8 million pregnant women (PEPFAR, fiscal year 2011)
• CDC helped support life-saving drug preventive treatment for more than 660,000 HIV-positive pregnant women to stop transmission of HIV to their babies (PEPFAR, fiscal year 2011)
• CDC support helped 200,000 infants to be born HIV-free (PEPFAR, fiscal year 2011)
• CDC helped support care for nearly 13 million people, including more than 4.1 million orphans and vulnerable children (PEPFAR, fiscal year 2011)
• CDC helped support HIV counseling and testing for more than 40 million people (PEPFAR, fiscal year 2011)
• CDC helped avert more than 800,000 deaths of HIV patients (PEPFAR, 2011)
• CDC helped prevent nearly 1.6 million children from being orphaned (PEPFAR, 2011)
• CDC helped prevent nearly 220,000 sexual infections with HIV (PEPFAR, 2011)
• CDC helped prevent more than 93,000 mother-to-child HIV infections (PEPFAR, 2011)
• For the first time, we have the vision of an AIDS-free generation
• Diseases have no borders: Global health is America’s health