1. Every minute of every day a child contracts HIV and last year alone 640,000 children under 15 became infected.
2. Only one in 10 people living with HIV has been tested for HIV.
3. Asia is expected to overtake sub-Saharan Africa in absolute numbers of HIV infections by 2010.
4. An estimated 1.5 million children in Asia have already been orphaned by Aids and a further 3.5 million have at least one HIV-positive parent.
5. The Joint UN Programme on Aids (UNAIDS) estimates that 2.2 million children under 15 currently live with HIV/Aids.
6 Without treatment, about 45 per cent of children born with HIV will die before their second birthday, and almost all before the age of five.
7. The antibiotic cotrimoxazole gives highly effective protection against these diseases and at just 1.7p a day, could make a real difference to the lives of four million children.
8. Early diagnosis in infants is difficult in poor countries because of a lack of simple and affordable tests for HIV.
9. At present, 500,000 children a year die of HIV/Aids.
10. The worst is to come: long delay between infection and death means even after HIV declines, the number of orphans will rise for many years.
11. Children living in households with sick or dying parents are often more vulnerable, disadvantaged and malnourished and less likely to go to school than children that have actually lost their parents.
12. Children with HIV-positive parents are often forced prematurely into adulthood when their parents become ill and die.
13. More than 120 million children around the world are missing out on a primary education that could help protect them from HIV infection.
14. In areas of high and rising prevalence, HIV/Aids is threatening the supply of teachers, resources available for schools and the quality of teaching.
15. Fear of HIV-related stigma and violence also deters adolescents and young people from finding out their HIV status or