According to the Joint United Nations Program on AIDS (UNAIDS), 95% of the world's 36 million people with HIV/AIDS live in the developing world. Seventy per cent of adults and 80% of children with HIV/AIDS live in Africa.

The total number of Africans living with HIV or AIDS has reached 25.3 million, and during the year 2000 alone, 2.4 million Africans died of HIV-related causes.

AIDS is also killing thousands elsewhere in the developing world. According to UNAIDS estimates, 5.6 million people in South and South East Asia, 1.3 million in Latin America, and 420,000 in Eastern Europe and Central Asia are currently infected with HIV/AIDS.

For more statistics, see www.unaids.org.

Clockwise from top left:

• Mother with HIV/AIDS in Kenya © MSF 2001
• Providing treatment to AIDS patient in Malawi © L. Binet/MSF 1997
• Child with HIV/AIDS in South Africa © Tom Stoddard/IPG 2001
• AIDS activists marching to demand access to AIDS drugs in Thailand © MSF 2001
• Providing care in Cambodia © MSF 2001
• AIDS patient in Cambodia © MSF 2001
• Ivanka, a child with HIV/AIDS in Ukraine, 6 months before her death © Aleksandr Glyadyelov 2001
• Angela (22) a sex worker in Zimbabwe © Tom Stoddart/IPG 2001