[Porterville]

Most of the children in Africa who have AIDS contracted when they were born, because their mothers had AIDS when they were pregnant with their child.

from:http://www.fazeteen.com/articles/aidsafrica.htm

[Porterville]

Worldwide, approximately 40 million people have the virus - 29 million of those are in Africa.

85 percent of all AIDS-related deaths were in Africa last year, yet less than 5 percent of Africans know their HIV status.

About 400,000 news AIDS cases were diagnosed in the U.S. last year. However in Africa, 5.6 million new cases were discovered.

14 million children around the world have lost one or both parents to AIDS.

In sub-Saharan Africa 470,000 children die each year from AIDS. Over 90 percent of them contracted the disease from their mother.

90 percent of all HIV transmission in Africa occurs through heterosexual sex.

from:http://www.faithandvalues.com/channels/aids-hiv-africa.asp