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As staggering as
the numbers already are, the orphan crisis in Sub-Saharan
Africa is only beginning to unfold. By end of 2010 HIV/AIDS
had robbed an
estimated 25 million children, under the age of 15, of one
or both parents. The Facts:
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Globally, there were an
estimated 34 million people
living with HIV in 2010.
22.9 million of these in Sub-Saharan.
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Globally, an estimated 2.7 million
people were newly infected with HIV in 2010, 1.9
million of these in sub-Saharan Africa.

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There were
1.8 million deaths from AIDS in 2010, with 1.2 million of these deaths
in Sub-Saharan Africa (in one year).
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Globally, around 390 000 children were born with
HIV in 2010
Kenya HIV and AIDS estimates, (KDHS
2008-9)
- HIV prevalence ages
15-49 at 6.3%
- (13.9% in Nyanza
province)
- 8% women compared to
4.3% for men.
- young women 15-24 age
group 4.5% and men 1.1%
- People living with HIV
1.3 - 1.6 million
- New infections 100,000
in 2009 for adults (15+)
- All children infected
is estimated to be 184,052 by 2009.
- 22,259 children got
newly infected in 2009
- 2.4 million children
are orphans, half due to HIV and AIDS
The Kenyan Situation (Source
World Bank 2010)
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