- That over 25 million have died.
- That there are over 40 million infected.
- That AIDS is the second most common killer of women world-wide.
- That world-wide 48% of all people with AIDs are women.
- That, in Africa more than 20 million people have died from AIDS.
- That 8,000 people die every day on the continent of Africa due to AIDS.
- That only 20% of people who are HIV positive get drugs.
- That Kenya's HIV prevalence has declined by half since 1995.
- That, world-wide, 80% of women newly infected with HIV are practicing monogamy within a marriage or a long time relationship.
- That there are 15 million orphans in the world due to their parents dying of AIDS.
- That 80% of all orphaned children due to AIDS live in sub-Saharan Africa.
- That the US government will only help fund prevention programs in Africa if abstinence is the only method of prevention taught.
- That the US government contributes more money than any other country to programs in Africa to try to prevent and reduce AIDS.
- That 1 in 8 adults in rural Kenya are estimated to be HIV positive and do not know it.
- That 1 in 5 adults in urban Kenya are estimated to HIV positive and do not know it.
- That over 1 million children in Kenya are orphaned due to AIDS.
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