Since I'm going to be working with AIDS in Africa I thought that these statistics might help you to understand some of my motivation for participating in the fight against AIDS in Tanzania.
-42 Million people are living with AIDS -74% of which live in Sub-Saharan Africa
-14,000 new cases of AIDS are diagnosed EVERY day. 95% of these in developing countries
-There are 14 million AIDS orphans and an estimated 25 million by the year 2010
-Sub Saharan Africa carries the burden of having 65% of the AIDS cases in the world
-AIDS is becoming a disease of young women, with the largest population affected being women between the ages of 15-30.
"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." -James Thurber
* Statistics from until.org and unaids.org
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