infection and those already infected by HIV/AIDS

1. Explain that the Convention protects the rights of both those vulnerable to infection and those already infected by HIV/AIDS. Supportive frameworks of policy and law are essential to effective and preventative HIV/AIDS response.
   
   Share these facts with your students:



• 8,000 people worldwide die of AIDS everyday, that is 5 people every minute.


• Over 23 million people have died from AIDS.


• There are 40.3 million people living with HIV worldwide


1. 38 million adults


2. 17.5 million women


3. 2.3 million children under the age of 15


• Sub-Saharan Africa has just over 10% of the world's population, but is home to more that 60% of all people living with HIV.


• AIDS claimed the life of 2.4 million people living in Sub-Sahara Africa in 2005.


• 75% of the reported infections in Eastern Europe and Central Asia between 2004 and 2005 were in people younger than 30.


• AIDS is the leading cause of death in the Caribbean among adults ages 15-44.


• In Africa, AIDS is wiping out the professional class (i.e. teachers, lawyers, doctors), yet these countries can't afford anti-retroviral drugs.


• Worldwide, only one in ten persons infected with HIV has been tested and knows his or her HIV status.


• In some Africa countries, three quarters of those infected are women - many of whom have not had more than one sexual partner.


• In six African countries (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe) more than one in five pregnant women has HIV/AIDS.