What's NOT OKAY?

• Every 3 seconds a child dies of hunger or malnutrition in sub-Saharan - that means 30,000 children per day.
• Official statistics show that 274 people die every hour of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa (approximately 6,600).
• That means 6,575 people die every day - 2.4 million people die every year at minimum.
• Reports at the AIDS conference in Toronto (August 2006) claim the real number to be 9,000 - 10,000 people dying each and every day.

• There are 800 million people living in Africa
• 300 million people live in the USA
• The bottom half of Africa is considered "sub-Saharan" Africa
• Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 10% of the world's population, but carries 66% of the world's people who are infected with HIV
• There are 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the world
  • 26.8 million of them live in sub-Saharan Africa
  • 1.2 million in the North America
• There are approximately 2.1 million children living with HIV today globally
• Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned by HIV/AIDS in Africa
• 15,000,000 children are orphaned TODAY in sub-Saharan Africa alone
• The World Health Organization (WHO) has predicted that there will be 18 - 43 million HIV/AIDS orphans by 2010 globally
• 72% of all new HIV infections are in woman

• The population of Swaziland is 1,000,000
• Swaziland is the #1 AIDS infected country in the world where more than 1 in 3 people are infected with HIV/AIDS (42.6% prevalence rate)
• Swaziland has 5,000+ households headed by children
• 44% of the child population are orphans
• In August it was thought that there were 70,000 orphans in Swaziland and it was projected that there would be 120,000 orphans by 2010
• In October 2005 new statistics were released estimating that there are 132,000 orphans in Swaziland today - the number has continued to grow

• Population 12 million
• 1.2 million orphans currently Ð the number previously predicted by the WHO (World Health Organization) for 2010
• 65% of the total population less than 15 years old
• 55% of those have stunted growth
• 25% malnourished
• 6% will die

• Has the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world
• National HIV prevalence rate has rocketed from 1% in 1990 to 25% today
• 4,000 teachers died in 2004 of AIDS
• 12% of teachers are infected
• 30% of pregnant women are infected

• is home to 660,000 orphans in a country of 10,000,000 people (expected to be 10% of total population by 2010)

• has 1.7 million orphans in a country of 30,000,000 people (on land that is the size of the state of California)

• in 2004 had 600 families registered with the government whose head of household is 6 years old

Is this OKAY with you?

*statistics from UNAID, UNICEF and AIDS 2006 conference