AIDS in terms of numbers

The number of people in the world living with HIV/AIDS: 33.2 million (range: 30.6 - 36.1 million)
(30.2 million adults, including 15.4  womens,and 2.5 million children under 15)

By region:
- 22.5 million in sub-Saharan African (1.6 million deaths in 2007)
- 4.0 million in South and South-East Asia (270,000 deaths in 2007)
- 1.6 million in Latin America (58,000 deaths in 2007)
- 1.6 million in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (55,000 deaths in 2007)
- 1.3 million in North America (21,000 deaths in 2007)
- 800,000 in East Asia (32,000 deaths in 2007)
- 760,000 in Western and Central Europe (12,000 deaths in 2007)
- 380,000 in North Africa and the Middle East (25,000 deaths in 2007)
- 230,000 in the Caribbean (11,000 deaths in 2007)
- 75,000 in Oceania (1,200 deaths in 2007)



The numer of new cases if HIV infection in 2007: 2.5 million (1.8 – 4.1 million)
(including 2.1 million adults and 420,000 children under 15)

By region:
- 1.7 million in sub-Saharan Africa
- 340,000 in South and South-East Asia
- 150,000 in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- 100,000 in Latin America
- 92,000 in East Asia
- 46,000 in North America
- 35,000 in North Africa and the Middle East
- 31,000 in Western and Central Europe
- 17,000 in the Caribbean
- 14,000 in Oceania



Number of deaths form ADIS in 2006: 2,. million (1.9 – 2.4 million)
(including 1.7 million adults and 380,000 children under 15)

In 2006, 30,000 people were living with HIV in France, and 6,300 new cases were reported. HIV infection mainly concerns people in the 30 – 40 age group. Over one in four new diagnoses of HIV infection concerns people infected through heterosexual contact, and almost all women with HIV were infected via heterosexual contact.