AIDS, and the virus that causes it, HIV, kill an increasing number of people every year. Although the disease is no longer the hot button issue that it was in the 90s, it is still a very serious disease with no cure.

There are now many medications that can be prescribed, as well as preventative measures that people are becoming aware of but none of that changes the number of lives that are shortened because of this deadly virus.

There are currently 33.2 million in the world that are living in the world with HIV or AIDS. In 2007,  2.1 million people were killed by the AIDS virus with 0.33 million of these being children. Around 69% of AIDS victims in the world come from Africa with a total count of 22.5 million in 2007, 1.6 million for those who died from AIDS. In North America, a total count of 21,000 deaths occurred among adults and children.

South Asia and East Asia has the second largest number of people suffering from the disease. There are 4 million individuals that live with HIV or AIDS. In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the count is 1.5 million. In Latin America, there are 1.6 million people living with HIV or AIDS with 100,000 of those people being infected in 2007. In North America, Western and Central Europe, there are approximately a total of 2.1 million infected with HIV or AIDS. Although it is difficult to determine the numbers for North Africa and the Middle East, it has been estimated that there are approximately 380,000 people living with the disease today.

In the entire world, there are four people under the age of twenty-five that become infected with HIV every minute. And for every infection in the world for any age group, it takes approximately 7.5 seconds before another infection takes place. There are 1,150 children that die from HIV or AIDS every day and the total number of people who die every day from the deadly disease is 7,950. For those countries such as Africa and South and East Asia, approximately twenty percent of their population is infected.