THE FACTS:
143 million children
worldwide are orphans.1
43.4 million orphans
live in Sub-Saharan Africa.2
IN ZAMBIA:
710,000 children
are orphans from AIDS.3
One in every six
adults is living with HIV.
98,000 people
died of AIDS in 2005.
Life expectancy
at birth has fallen below
40 years.
According to UNAIDS
statistics, every 35 seconds,
a child becomes an orphan because of AIDS.
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