• Number of HIV infections by year 2000, 1994 prediction: 40 million

• Number of HIV infections by December 1998: 47 million

• Ratio of HIV infections in developing vs industrialised countries: 19:1

• Ratio of spending on HIV/AIDS in industrialised vs. developing countries: 12:1

• Budget for the 1998 World Aids Conference: US$14.1 million

• Estimated cost of stopping one HIV infection by treating other sexually transmitted diseases: US$234

• Number of of HIV infections that could be stopped by spending the World AIDS Conference budget on STD drugs: 60,259

• Number of HIV and AIDS related patents awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1996 : 1500

• Ratio between total cost of treatment for all people infected with HIV in 1990 and cumulative worldwide sales of AZT in 1996: 1

• Average cost of preventing one mother-to-child transmission of HIV in a developing country with testing, counselling, drugs and breast-milk substitutes: US$3748

• Number of mother-to-child transmissions that you could prevent with UNICEF annual budget: 240,644

• Number of AIDS orphans in the city of Abidjan, Ivory Coast : 70,000

• Ranking of HIV/AIDS in leading cause of global death (including heart disease, road accidents, wars, etc) in 1990: 30; Projected rank in 2020: 9

• Total number of people dying of AIDS by year 2000, 1994 prediction: 8 million; total number of lives taken by AIDS to date: 13.9 million

• Reduction in years of life expectancy due to AIDS in Botswana: 20

• Estimated increase in current national health budget in South Africa required to treat all AIDS cases in year 2000: 10-fold

• Increase in HIV infections worldwide in 1998: 5.8 million (+10%)

• Total number of people living with HIV receiving HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) in West Africa, one year after launch of the UN Global Drug Access Initiative: 269

• Total UN spending on HIV/AIDS in 1994-95: US$337 million; in 1996-97: US$332 million

Bibliography

1. World Health Organization (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS, Geneva; The HIV/AIDS Pandemic -- 1994 Overview
2. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Geneva; AIDS Epidemic Update -- December 1998
3. UN Population Division, Press Release, 27 October 1998; World Population Expected to Reach 6 Billion in 1999 And Likely to Approach 9 Billion by 2050, But Fertility is Declining Globally (http://www.undp.org/popin/pop684.htm)
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5. The World Bank, Washington; Confronting AIDS (October 1997)
6. AIDS in the World; J. Mann & D. Tarantola (Eds.); Oxford University Press (1996)
7. World AIDS Conference, Geneva, June 1998 -- Opening speech by conference Chairman
8. Project Inform Perspective Newsletter, September 1998 (http://projinf.org/pub/25/gap.html)
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10. UNICEF Annual Report (1998)
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