| Number of people who have died of AIDS in the past 20 years: | 19 million |
| Number of people who died in World War I: | 14 million |
| Number of Kenyans who died of AIDS every day: | 500 |
| Number of people killed in U.S. school shootings in the past six years: | 51 |
| Loss of Silicon Valley high-tech jobs in March-May 2001, economic downturn: | 50,000 |
| Number of people infected by the AIDS virus in that same time period: | 1,380,000 |
| Odds that a person with HIV/AIDS lives in a developing country: | 19 to 1 |
| Ratio of the number of people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa to those in North America: | 25 to 1 |
| Percentage of deaths caused by AIDS in Africa: | 21 |
| Percentage of deaths caused by breast cancer in the United States: | 0.16 |
| Average life expectancy for Botswanans before AIDS: | 70 |
| Average life expectancy for Botswanans by the year 2010 because of AIDS: | 29 |
| Percentage of teenage boys in Mozambique who could not name one way to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS: | 62 |
| Percentage of Americans who said they are not willing to support AIDS prevention and education programs overseas: | 61 |
| Percentage of Americans who believe that sex education should be a required school subject: | 60 |
| Percentage of Malawi's teachers who are HIV-positive: | 30 |
| Chance that a 15-year-old girl in South Africa will contract HIV/AIDS: | 1 in 2 |
| Chance that a 15-19-year old girl in the US will give birth: | 1 in 17 |
| Average amount Americans spend on tobacco products: | $54 billion |
| Annual cost of treating AIDS patients worldwide: | $60 billion |
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