AIDS orphans in Africa
Children under 15 who have lost one or both parents to AIDS
since the beginning of the epidemic

 Global estimates of AIDS orphans
1999
 Sub-Saharan Africa (see map)

12,100,000

 South & South-East Asia

 850,000

 Latin America

  110,000

 Caribbean

85,000

 North America

  70,000

 North Africa & Middle East

 15,000

 Western Europe

 9,000

 East Asia & Pacific

 5,600

 Eastern Europe & Central Asia

  500

 Australia & New Zealand

 < 500

 Estimated total

 13,200,000

Source: UN Africa Recovery from UNAIDS, Report on the Global HIV-AIDS Epidemic, June 2000

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