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Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation:

Join the Moment to Create a Generation Free of HIV

Every day, more than 1,000 children are infected with HIV. It doesn’t have to be this way. The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is challenging the global community to cut pediatric HIV infections in half over the next five years by improving access to lifesaving HIV prevention and treatment services. Join us today by sharing a special moment in your life and become part of the movement to create a generation free of HIV.

Every 12 seconds someone contracts HIV.

Every 16 seconds someone dies from AIDS.

Number of people with HIV in 2008:

33,400,000
total
31,300,000
adults
15,700,000
women
2,100,000
children

Number of AIDS deaths in 2008:

2,000,000
total
1,700,000
adults
280,000
children

*data source: UNAIDS 2009 AIDS Epidemic Update

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