Global Update

HIV/AIDS Statistics for the year 2009

 

 

Number of People Living with HIV/AIDS

North America…..1.5 million

Caribbean…..240,000

Central & South America…..1.4 million

Western & Central Europe…..820,000

Eastern Europe & Central Asia…..1.4 million

Middle East & North Africa…..460,000

Sub-Saharan Africa…..22.5 million

East Asia …..770,000

South & South-East Asia…..4.1 million

Oceania…..57,000

Global Total…..33.3 million

 

 

Newly infected people in 2009

Total…..2.6 million

 

 

People who died of AIDS in 2009

Total…..1.8 million

 

 

Source www.UNAIDS.org