About how much people have Aids in Africa?

What percentage of people in Africa die of AIDS each year?

• Answer:

  While only ten percent of the world's people live in Africa, it is home to 90 percent of the world's HIV-infected children. In sub-Saharan Africa 470,000 children die every year from AIDS. For more than 90 percent of these children, the deadly virus is transmitted from their mother. Of 30 children born to HIV-positive mothers, approximately 10 will acquire the virus at birth. Four more will become infected through their mothers breast milk. Most of these children will not live to see their 5th birthdays. Many young girls are infected by a man convinced that having sex with a virgin can cure him. This cruel myth is being perpetuated across Africa. To "cure" their disease, infected men are targeting younger and younger girls as sexual partners, willing or not. During 2007 alone, an estimated 1.5 million adults and children died. 5.4 million new AIDS infections in 1999, 4 million of them in Africa. 2.8 million dead of AIDS in 1999, 85 percent of them in Africa. 13.2 million children orphaned by AIDS, 12.1 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Reduced life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa from 59 years to 45 between 2005 and 2010, and in Zimbabwe from 61 to 33. More than 500,000 babies infected in 1999 by their mothers -- most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Not sure about the percentage, but alot.