HIV/AIDS, STDs and STIs

Global report on AIDS statistics, Information and Facts about HIV AIDS

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HIV continues to be a major global public health issue. Since 2000, 38.1 million people have become infected with HIV and 25.3 million people have died of AIDS-related illnesses. In 2014, an estimated 36.9 million people were living with HIV (including 2.6 million children) – a global HIV prevalence of 0.8%.2 the vast majority of this number live in low- and middle- income countries. In the same year, 1.2 million people died of AIDS-related illnesses. 25.8 million People living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa, accounting for 70% of the global total. Only 54% of all people living with HIV know that they have the virus.

• Nearly 37 million people are now living with HIV.
• 2.6 million Are under the age of 15.
• In 2014, an estimated 2 million people were newly infected with HIV.
• 220,000 were under the age of 15.
• Every day about 5,600 people contract HIV—more than 230 every hour.
• In 2014, 1.2 million people died from AIDS.
• 15.8 million people accessing antiretroviral therapy (June 2015)
• 36.9 million [34.3 million–41.4 million] people globally were living with HIV (end 2014)
• 2 million [1.9 million–2.2 million] people became newly infected with HIV (end 2014)
• 1.2 million [980 000–1.6 million] people died from AIDS-related illnesses (end 2014)
• Since the beginning of the pandemic, nearly 78 million people have contracted HIV and close to 39 million have died of AIDS-related causes.
• As of March 2015, around 15 million people living with HIV (41% of the total) had access to antiretroviral therapy.