Sub Saharan African HIV & AIDS Statistics Summary

An estimated 24.5 million adults and childrenwere living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 2005.

During that year, an estimated 2 million people died from AIDS. The epidemic has left behind some 12 million orphaned African children.

The estimated number of adults and children living with HIV/AIDS, the number of deaths from AIDS, and the number of living orphans in individual countries in sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 2005 are shown below.

Country	People living with HIV/AIDS	Adult (15-49) rate %	Women with HIV/AIDS	Children with HIV/AIDS	AIDS deaths	Orphans due to AIDS
Angola	320,000	3.7	170,000	35,000	30,000	160,000
Benin	87,000	1.8	45,000	9,800	9,600	62,000
Botswana	270,000	24.1	140,000	14,000	18,000	120,000
Burkina Faso	150,000	2.0	80,000	17,000	12,000	120,000
Burundi	150,000	3.3	79,000	20,000	13,000	120,000
Cameroon	510,000	5.4	290,000	43,000	46,000	240,000
Central African Republic	250,000	10.7	130,000	24,000	24,000	140,000
Chad	180,000	3.5	90,000	16,000	11,000	57,000
Comoros	<500	<0.1	<100	<100	<100	-
Congo	120,000	5.3	61,000	15,000	11,000	110,000
Côte d'Ivoire	750,000	7.1	400,000	74,000	65,000	450,000
Dem. Republic of Congo	1,000,000	3.2	520,000	120,000	90,000	680,000
Djibouti	15,000	3.1	8,400	1,200	1,200	5,700
Equatorial Guinea	8,900	3.2	4,700	<1,000	<1,000	4,600
Eritrea	59,000	2.4	31,000	6,600	5,600	36,000
Ethiopia	420,000- 1,300,000	0.9- 3.5	190,000- 730,000	30,000- 220,000	38,000- 130,000	280,000- 870,000
Gabon	60,000	7.9	33,000	3,900	4,700	20,000
Gambia	20,000	2.4	11,000	1,200	1,300	3,800
Ghana	320,000	2.3	180,000	25,000	29,000	170,000
Guinea	85,000	1.5	53,000	7,000	7,100	28,000
Guinea-Bissau	32,000	3.8	17,000	3,200	2,700	11,000
Kenya	1,300,000	6.1	740,000	150,000	140,000	1,100,000
Lesotho	270,000	23.2	150,000	18,000	23,000	97,000
Liberia*	-	2.0-5.0	-	-	-	-
Madagascar	49,000	0.5	13,000	1,600	2,900	13,000
Malawi	940,000	14.1	500,000	91,000	78,000	550,000
Mali	130,000	1.7	66,000	16,000	11,000	94,000
Mauritania	12,000	0.7	6,300	1,100	<1,000	6,900
Mauritius	4,100	0.6	<1,000	-	<100	-
Mozambique	1,800,000	16.1	960,000	140,000	140,000	510,000
Namibia	230,000	19.6	130,000	17,000	17,000	85,000
Niger	79,000	1.1	42,000	8,900	7,600	46,000
Nigeria	2,900,000	3.9	1,600,000	240,000	220,000	930,000
Rwanda	190,000	3.1	91,000	27,000	21,000	210,000
Senegal	61,000	0.9	33,000	5,000	5,200	25,000
Sierra Leone	48,000	1.6	26,000	5,200	4,600	31,000
Somalia	44,000	0.9	23,000	4,500	4,100	23,000
South Africa	5,500,000	18.8	3,100,000	240,000	320,000	1,200,000
Swaziland	220,000	33.4	120,000	15,000	16,000	63,000
Togo	110,000	3.2	61,000	9,700	9,100	88,000
Uganda	1,000,000	6.7	520,000	110,000	91,000	1,000,000
United Rep. Of Tanzania	1,400,000	6.5	710,000	110,000	140,000	1,100,000
Zambia	1,100,000	17.0	570,000	130,000	98,000	710,000
Zimbabwe	1,700,000	20.1	890,000	160,000	180,000	1,100,000
Total sub-Saharan Africa	24,500,000	6.1	13,200,000	2,000,000	2,000,000	12,000,000