AIDS

Every week, AIDS claims as many lives as American fatalities in the Vietnam War. Since it was discovered, AIDS has killed nearly 30 million people 2013 equal to the combined population of Arizona and Texas, and nearly 10 times the number of earthquake fatalities in the last century.

6,000 children are orphaned by AIDS every day. If all of these children held hands they would stretch five and half times across the United States. By 2011, this virtual chain will reach around the world.

Food shortages are a big problem. By 2020, AIDS will have claimed the lives of at least one-fifth of southern Africa's agricultural workers. Food production is just one area in which AIDS threatens to reverse decades of development work in poor communities.

From ONE.ORG