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AIDS Facts and words of wisdom:
  1. The largest growing demigraphic infected with HIV is women.

  2. Approximately 1 in every 7 Americans living with AIDS resides in California.

  3. HIV infections among hetrosexual women are increasing more rapidly than any other group.

  4. An estimated 36.1 million people are livin with HIV around the world.

  5. In 2000, 5.3 million people around the world became infected -600,000- of them children.

  6. AIDS has claimed the lives of 21.8 million people.

  7. AIDS killed 3 million in 2000.

  8. It is estimated that by the end of 2000, 1.1 million children under the age of 15 were living with HIV, largely due to mother-to-child transmition.

  9. Approximately 40,000 Americans have become infecte with HIV anually.

  10. Approximately 640,022 (83%) of American men are living with HIV/AIDS.