“There's nothing else quite like Academy of Friends and the Gala. The funding they raise for HIV/AIDS services in the Bay Area is vital. We can't do it without their partnership.”
Brenda Laribee
Former Development Director, Continuum and
New Leaf
Fundraising Consultant
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HIV/AIDS INFORMATION
No one likes to be confronted with grim information about death and disease. We’re sure you don’t, and neither do we. Still, the more we use this information to motivate us, reminding us why we’re working so hard, and digging so deep, the sooner we’ll make these sobering statistics history.
The bottom line? Maybe the HIV/AIDS information presented here will help you understand that there are more people are affected than you think, or more people need help than you think, but we’re sure that you’ll realize -- there’s more we can do than you think.
HIV/AIDS Information: The Facts
- Since 1981, more than 25 million people worldwide have died from AIDS. Three million people in 2005 contributed to this total.
- In 2006, more than 4.3 million people were infected with HIV, bringing the worldwide total to nearly 40 million.
- In the United States, 1.5 million people have been infected with HIV and more than 530,000 have died since the start of the epidemic in 1981,
- Approximately 1.2 million people in the U.S. are living with HIV/AIDS – the highest number the country has ever seen.
- In 2005, 40,000 Americans were newly infected with the HIV virus.
- African Americans account for 50% of new HIV infections, although they comprise only 12% of the population, and at least half of new infections occurred in people under the age of 25.
- It is estimated that one-quarter living with HIV in the U.S. don’t know it.
- The state of California is ranked second in the nation in cumulative AIDS cases, surpassed only by New York.
- In San Francisco, the number of new HIV infections has remained relatively constant, between 800 and 1,000 infections.
- Africa has 12 million AIDS orphans.
- At the end of 2006, women accounted for 48% of all adults living with HIV worldwide, and for 59% in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Young people (under 25 years old) account for half of all new HIV infections worldwide - around 6,000 become infected with HIV every day.
- In developing and transitional countries, 7.1 million people are in immediate need of life-saving AIDS drugs; of these, only 2.015 million (28%) are receiving the drugs.
Information Sources: San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Avert, UNAIDS/WHO 2006 AIDS epidemic information update, and UNAIDS/WHO 2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic.
Find more information:
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Centers for Disease Control
AIDSHotline.org
Project Inform
Avert
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