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Fact sheets on issues related to HIV/AIDS and young people
UNAIDS website
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Three new fact sheets prepared by UNICEF in the lead up to the United Nations Special Session on Children provide the latest facts and figures on issues related to HIV/AIDS and young people.
1. Young people and HIV/AIDS
The world's young people are threatened by HIV/AIDS. Of the 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS, more than a quarter are aged 15 to 24. Half of all new infections now occur in young people.
[Download this fact sheet on the right-hand side of this page]
2. Orphans and other children affected by HIV/AIDS
By 2001, AIDS had killed the mother or both parents of 10.4 million children currently under the age of 15. The disease orphaned some 2.3 million children in 2000 alone.
[Download this fact sheet on the right-hand side of this page]
3. Mother-to-child transmission of HIV
Fact sheet on mother-to-child transmission of HIV In 2001, 800,000 children under the age of 15 contracted HIV, over 90 per cent of them through mother-to-child transmission. Without preventive interventions, approximately 35 per cent of infants born to HIV-positive mothers contract the virus through mother-to-child transmission.
[Download this fact sheet on the right-hand side of this page] |
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