Regional HIV and AIDS Statistics, 2009
•Acquiredimmunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the final and fatal stage of infectionwith the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
•95% of all HIV cases and AIDS deaths occur in the developing world.
•UNAIDS reports that by 2008, over 25 million people had died of AIDS,with the large majority in sub-Saharan Africa.
•Throughout the region, AIDSis now the leading cause of death of adults in the economically active years.