Global Update

HIV/AIDS Statistics for the year 2008

 

 

Number of People Living with HIV/AIDS

North America…..1.4 million

Caribbean…..240,000

Latin America…..2 million

Western & Central Europe…..850,000

Eastern Europe & Central Asia…..1.5 million

Middle East & North Africa…..310,000

Sub-Saharan Africa…..22.4 million

East Asia …..850,000

South & South-East Asia…..3.8 million

Oceania…..59,000

Global Total…..33.4 million

 

 

Newly infected people in 2008

Total…..2.7 million

 

 

People who have died of AIDS in 2008

Total…..2.0 million

 

 

Source www.UNAIDS.org