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 * In **2005**, 57 SOS Children Villages (largest orphan charity) supported and worked with AIDS and HIV orphans in Africa. Later, this charity spread to Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.
 * As of 2006 there 12 million orphans in Sub-Sahara Africa suffering from AIDS or HIV.
 * **2006**- 15 million orphans in the world with this disease (80%)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In Uganda, about 2 million children are orphans with one, or both parents dead due to AIDS or HIV.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In Sub-Sahara Africa, almost 8,000 adults and children died of AIDS each day.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There are 140,000 children who lost one or both parents to AIDS, according to a United Nations Children’s Educational Fund.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Every nine and a half minutes, someone in the United States becomes infected with HIV, which later leads to AIDS.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In the U.S, there are 56,000 new infections each year.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Currently there is a shocking 1.2 million people infected with this disease.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The PRC government reported 700,000 HIV/AIDS cases by the end of 2007 and the United Nations predicts this number to reach 10 million by 2010.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2008- CBS News: [] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">