1. Unless something changes, over 250 million people will die from AIDS in the next few years

2. Narrow graves are predug and waiting for the dead in Zimbabwe

3. We are still in the earliest stages of the epidemic.

5. The spread of HIV across the globe is now twice as fast as five years ago

7. 85 million people were infected with HIV by the end of 2002

9. In many towns and cities across central Africa, up to a third of all young adults are infected with HIV

11. AIDS is not a gay plague. There are millions more women and children infected with HIV throughout the world than gay men.

14. In Romania up to 1 in 10 of all children in orphanages became infected with infected needles.

16. In South East Asia, HIV is spreading so fast that it threatens to dwarf the African problem by 2010.

18. By 2001, India had more HIV cases than any other nation. In Bombay alone, there are an estimated 1000 new cases every night.

20. In Indonesia, infection rates have jumped in a year from 15% to 40% among drug users.

22. Antiretroviral drugs can prolong life expectancy but are hugely expensive and often unavailable to developing countries. In the West, complacency about HIV is increasing as people mistakenly believe these drugs are a cure. Already we are seeing new strains of the virus which are resistant to treatment.

23. Worldwide, over 3 million children have HIV infection. Half a million die every year.

27. Babies of infected mothers are at greatest risk of catching the HIV virus from the birth process itself and from breastfeeding.

30. In developed countries, 50% of people who contract HIV will develop AIDS within 10 years. 94% of those with AIDS will die within 5 years.

32. What can we do ?

33. Unless something changes, over 250 million people will die from AIDS in the next few years