Africa

Africa

Africa south of the Sahara is the worst-affected, with 2/3 of all living HIV infected persons. In 2008, 91% of all children there were living with HIV and there were 14 million orphaned children, whose parents had died of Aids. It is estimated that in Sub-Saharan Africa, one in 20 people (5%) carry HIV.

In 2008, South Africa, with 5.7 million, was the country with the highest number of HIV-infected people in the world. The situation is even more dramatic in some small countries, which have the highest number of HIV-infected people in percentage terms: Swaziland 26%, Botswana 24%, Lesotho 23%.