Control of HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS is causing untold human suffering. In some countries, it is also reversing decades of development progress. Since the late 1970s, more than 23 million people have lost their lives to the disease; by 2010, the cumulative toll is expected to rise to 45 million.

According to UNICEF, by the end of 2002, 42 million people were living with HIV/AIDS, including almost 12 million young people between 15 and 24 and more than three million children under the age of 15. For the first time since the start of the epidemic, half the number of people living with HIV/AIDS were women and girls. In 2002 alone, AIDS killed more than 2.5 million adults and 610,000 children.

While the epidemic’s evolution has varied across regions, there is one common denominator: HIV/AIDS is increasingly a disease of the young and most vulnerable, particularly girls. HIV/AIDS is increasingly a disease of the young and most vulnerable, particularly girls. Of the 5 million new infections in 2002, half were among young people. More than a third of all people living with HIV/AIDS are under the age of 25, and almost two-thirds of them are women. AIDS has orphaned 14 million children, and left millions more extremely vulnerable. Almost 2,000 infants became HIV-positive every day last year either during pregnancy, birth, or through breastfeeding.

What can our young people do to stop HIV/AIDS?

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