6,800 new infections each day as a result of AIDS, although there has been a significant decrease since 2001 partly due to the impact of HIV programmes.

HIV among young women pregnant women aged 15-24 attending antenatal clinics declined in 11 of the 15 most-affected countries.

25 million people have died of AIDS since 1981. 

5,700 deaths each day because of AIDS, 238 deaths an hour, 4 deaths every minute.

Two-thirds of people living with AIDS live in sub-Saharan Africa.

The number of people living in Eastern Europe and Central Asia has increased by 150 percent since the signing of the United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS in 2001.

In Asia, the number of people living with HIV in Vietnam doubled between 2000 and 2005 and Indonesia has the fastest growing epidemic.

Source: Joint United Nations Programme for HIV&AIDS