Sub-Saharan Africa has just over 10% of the world’s population, but is home to more than 60% of all people living with HIV—25.8 million (source - UNAIDS).

In 2005, an estimated 3.2 million people in sub-Saharan Africa became newly infected, while 2.4 million adults and children died of AIDS (source - UNAIDS).

The annual number of registered deaths rose by a massive 57% between 1997 and 2002. Among those aged 25-49 years, the rise was 116% in the same six year period. (Source - Mortality and causes of death in South Africa, 1997-2003)

Based on antenatal data, studies estimate that 6.29 million South Africans were living with HIV at the end of 2004, including 3.3 million women and 104,863 babies (source - South African Department of Health 2004).

The rate of HIV amongst pregnant women in South Africa in 1993 was 2.4%, in 2003 it was 32% (source - UNAIDS).

The number of children in South Africa with HIV was 190,000 in 2001... in 2003 it was 230,000 (source - UNAIDS).

As a result of AIDS South Africa had 660,000 orphans under the age of 17 in 2001, now there are over 1.1m (source - UNAIDS).

In 2001, 270,000 people died in South Africa from AIDS. In 2003 the total was 370,000 - that's one thousand every day!