Africa at a glance ...

• Every 3 seconds a child dies of hunger or malnutrition in sub-Saharan That means 30,000 children per day.
• Official statistics show that 274 people die every hour of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa (approximately 6,600), but reports at the AIDS conference in Toronto (August 2006) claim the real number to be 9,000 - 10,000 people dying each and every day
• That means 6,575 people die every day - 2.4 million people die every year at minimum.
• There are 800 million people living in Africa
• 300 million people live in the USA
• The bottom half of Africa is considered "sub-Saharan" Africa
• sub-Saharan Africa is home to 10% of the world's population, but carries 66% of the world's people who are infected with HIV
• 9 countries in sub-Saharan Africa have an average life expectancy of 30 years old and are in danger of extinction
• There are 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the world 
  –26.8 million of them live in sub-Saharan Africa 
  –1.2 million in the North America
• There are approximately 2.1 million children living with HIV today globally
• Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned by HIV/AIDS in Africa
• 15,000,000 children are orphaned TODAY in sub-Saharan Africa alone
• The World Health Organization (WHO) has predicted that there will be 18 - 43 million HIV/AIDS orphans by 2010 globally
• 72% of all new HIV infections are in woman