AIDS in Africa
Introduction · The AIDS virus is a major problem all over the world and mainly in Africa. ... While the Bubonic killed about 30 million people in medieval Europe, AIDS is expected to kill about 71 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2010. ... Facts ·70% of the adults and 80% of the children living with HIV in the world are living in Africa. ·At the end of 2001, the number of newly infected adults and children in Africa reached 3. ... 5 million African adults and children were living with HIV/AIDS ·In 2001, 2.2 out of 3 million deaths from AIDS occurred in Africa. ... 4 million new AIDS infections in 1999, 4 million of them in Africa. ... 8 million dead of AIDS in 1999, 85 percent of them in Africa. ... 2 million children orphaned by AIDS, 12.1 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa. · Reduced life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa from 59 years to 45 between 2005 and 2010, and in Zimbabwe from 61 to 33. · More than 500,000 babies infected in 1999 by their mothers -- most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.