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UNAIDS statistics (as of July 2008), based on the reporting of 147 out of 192 UN member states, show that:
- Two million people died from AIDS in 2007 (5,500 people per day), and 72 percent of these deaths were in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Over 33 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, and 67 percent of these infected people live in sub-Saharan Africa.
 Fifty percent of adults living with HIV/AIDS are women.- There are 7,400 new infections every day (95 percent in developing countries).
- HIV/AIDS is a "disease of young people" with 45 percent of the new infections each year occurring among people ages 15 to 24.
- Annually, there are 70,000 new infections of children under age 15. Many of these children are or will become orphans. Without treatment, approximately half of the children with perinatal infection will die by the age of 2.
- The estimated number of orphans under 18 years of age in sub-Saharan Africa is 11 to 12 million.
The Center for Disease Control statistics (as of 2007) show that:
- An estimated 1.1 million people are currently living with HIV in the United States, with approximately 53,600 new infections occurring each year.
- 73 percent of new infections were in men, and 27 percent were in women.
- By race, 45 percent of the new infections occurred among African Americans, and 17 percent in Hispanics. Whites accounted 35 percent of the new infections.
- 34 percent of new infections were in people younger than 30 years of age.
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