Are there any statistics of how many people globally have HIV AIDS ?
Globally, 34.3 million adults and children were living with HIV/AIDS at the end of 1999. Of the 33 million adults living with HIV/AIDS, 15.7 million were women. About 95 percent of those infected with HIV live in developing countries, where the cost of combination therapies is prohibitive. In 1999, 5.4 million people–of whom 2.3 million were women–were newly infected with HIV, and 2.8 million people died of AIDS. Since the beginning of the epidemic, there have been 18.8 million AIDS deaths and 13.2 million AIDS orphans. In the United States, the CDC estimates that between 800,000 and 900,000 people in the U.S. are living with HIV/AIDS. Of them, a record number-297,136-are estimated to be living with AIDS. Public education and prevention efforts and newer, more effective therapies have helped slow the annual increase in the number of AIDS cases. Although AIDS cases rose by 65 to 90 percent annually in the first decade of the epidemic, these rates decreased dramatically in the 1990s. B
