The Body: HIV/AIDS Around the World

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Filmmaker Robert Bilheimer traveled around the developing world filming people with HIV for his film A Closer Walk. This photo shows 22-year-old Octavia Dlezi who tested positive soon after losing her husband to AIDS. She has a young child and lives in South Africa. She is just one of more than 22 million with HIV who live in sub-Saharan Africa.

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HIV/AIDS Around the World, 2007

Adults and children living with HIV/AIDS: 33.2 million
Newly HIV infected: 2.5 million
AIDS deaths: 2.1 million

-Statistics from UNAIDS

HIV/AIDS in the United States, 2005

Adults and children estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS: 475,871
Up to 27 percent of HIV-infected people remain undiagnosed

-Statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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