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Right now, nearly 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS and we're averaging over 4 million new infections every year.



General Epidemic - Dr. Peter Piot, UNAIDS Executive Director, explains how quickly AIDS has made it to "one of the make or break issues of our time."



Global Tragedy - At the International AIDS Conference, Dr. Peter Piot uses a global map to track the spread of AIDS across the world in the past twenty years.



Pregnant Women - Almost half of all pregnant women in Botswana are HIV positive.



BabiesShocking statistics emerge from Botswana regarding the mortality of their children and predictions for their adults.



Botswana Stats - Botswana's infection rate has more than doubled in the past 15 years.Uganda StatsUganda experienced one of the largest reductions of new HIV infections ever recorded.



ABC Program - The ABC program was successful in reducing HIV infection rates for Uganda. Here, the First Lady of Uganda explains what the ABC model is and the reasoning behind it.



PepfarPEPFAR, or the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, is the U.S. contribution and the largest sum ever committed to the global fight against AIDS.US StatsEach year in the United States, there are over 40,000 new HIV infections. Half of all new infections are young people under 25. The R Factor "R" is the number of people the average person will infect before they die. If the number averages less than 1 then the disease will eventually die out. If the number averages more than 1, then the epidemic keeps growing.



Prevention - Dr. Peter Piot asks how the world can afford not to increase efforts toward the prevention of HIV.New InfectionsWe're averaging over 4 million new infections a year. For each new person who got treatment for HIV, about 10 people became infected.



Battle For Rights - The war against AIDS has now become a battleground for rights.



UN Resolution - The fear of HIV discrimination led leaders in 1992 to establish the groundwork for western ideology that put individual rights ahead of public health concerns.