HIV/AIDS
Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned by HIV/AIDS
6,100 children lose a parent or both from AIDS every day
4,100 children die in Sub-Saharan Africa each day
In Twichland Africa, 50% of the population is under the age of 15. Most of these kids are orphans.
Approximately 15.2 million children under age 18 have lost one or both parents to AIDS. Of these, 12 million live in sub-Saharan Africa.
Each day, 1,500 children worldwide become infected with HIV, the vast majority of them newborns.
To date about 65 million people have been infected with HIV, and AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since it was first recognized in 1981.
About 17.3 million women comprise nearly half the total number of people living with HIV, and 76 percent (13.2 million) of women with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa.
Africa is home to 69 percent of the AIDS-infected population and has only 1.8 percent of the world's health-care workers.
About 11,000 new HIV infections occur daily worldwide. Of those, 50 percent are women and more than 40 percent are young people ages 15-24.
Approximately 9.8 million young people, ages 15-24, are living with HIV/AIDS.
Water
Roughly one-sixth of the world's population, or 1.1 billion people, do not have access to safe water.
About 2.6 billion people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation, roughly two-fifths of the world's population.
Approximately 1.8 million children die every year as a result of diseases caused by unclean water and poor sanitation. This amounts to around 5,000 deaths a day.
The simple act of washing hands with soap and water can reduce diarrhea diseases by more than 40 percent.
Water-related disease is the second biggest killer of children worldwide, after acute respiratory infections such as tuberculosis.
Approximately 97.5 percent of the earth's water is saltwater. If the world's water fit into a bucket, only 1 teaspoonful would be drinkable.
Around 90 percent of incidences of water-related diseases are due to unsafe water supply, sanitation and hygiene, and most victims are children in developing countries.
The average person in the developing world uses 2.6 gallons of water every day for drinking, washing and cooking. This is the same amount used in the average flush of a toilet.
Approximately 21.1 percent of children live in developing countries without safe water.
Education
Of the 22 countries where more than half the population is illiterate, 15 are in Africa.
About 75 percent of children out of primary school in developing countries have mothers who did not go to school.
An estimated 130 million of the world's 15- to 24- year-olds cannot read or write.
Nearly 115 million children are out of school. Globally, some 53 percent of the children out of primary school are girls, meaning that for every 100 boys out of school, 115 girls are in the same situation.
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