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Quick Facts

• Everyday, nearly 7,500 people are infected with HIV and 5,500 die from AIDS. Globally, an estimated 33 million people were living with HIV/AIDS in 2007.
• The number of people living with HIV rose from an estimated 29.5 million in 2001 to 33 million in 2007. The vast majority of those living with HIV are in sub Saharan Africa, where 60% of adults living with HIV in 20076 were women.
• Malaria kills over 1 million people annually, 80% of whom are children under five in sub-Saharan Africa. There continues to be between 350 million and 500 million cases of malaria world wide each year
• An estimated 250 million anti-malaria insecticide-treated bed nets are required to reach 80% coverage in sub-Saharan Africa. To date, the finds committed will provide only 100 million nets - less than half the requirement.

Where do we Stand

• Most countries are struggling to meet the Goal 6 targets of achieving universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS by 2010 and of halting and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015.
• Access to antiretroviral therapy rose by 42% in 2007 - an unprecedented scaling up.
• International funding fro anti-HIV/AIDS programs in low and middle income countries reached $10 billion in 2007 - a tenfold increase in less than a decade. Yet, this sum falls short of the $18 billion in assistance required annually to combat AIDS.
• Progress has been made in malaria control interventions, particularly through the use of insecticide-treated mosquito bed nets, whose production worldwide jumped from 30 million in 2004 to 94 million in 2007. coupled with increased resourced, this has led to a rapid rise in the number of mosquito nets produced and distributed within countries.