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Women's Health Project: Fact Sheets
HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries
- Developing countries report 95% of AIDS cases.
- There has been a tremendous increase of infection in women between 15 - 24.
- Cultural and gender biases deny women access to health care, education or influence in matters that affect their lives.
- Women in developing countries have little or no access to reproductive health information or family planning services.
- Women make up two thirds of the world's poor. This means women and girls lack the resources and education to change their environment, and are vulnerable to sexual assault, prostitution and sexual slavery, all of which lead to possible HIV infection.
- In the last ten years 4.3 million children have died from AIDS.
- Six hundred thousand (600,000) infants have acquired the disease through mother to newborn transmission.
- Every 14 seconds another child becomes an orphan due to AIDS-related deaths.
Information provided by the Joint U.N. Programme on HIV/AIDS.
Posted Sept. 10, 2002
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