Positively Adopted - How many people have HIV?

Almost 40 million people in the world have HIV/AIDS.
In the United States, over 1 million people are living with HIV. There are approximately 40,000 new US infections every year.

The UN estimates that there are currently 15 million AIDS orphans, and by 2010 there will be 25 million.
1 child dies every minute from AIDS (without medication)
There are 7,000 new infections every day worldwide.
Over 22 million people worldwide have died from AIDS.

^{Almost all HIV-infected children acquire the virus from their mothers before or during birth or through breastfeeding.}

_{As of 2007, over 2 million children worldwide are living with HIV.}