Taking stock: HIV in children
Reference number: WHO/HIV/2006.04
Each day, some 1500 children under 15 years of age become infected with HIV, an estimated 90% of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2005, there were 2.3 million (1.7–3.5 million) children living with HIV worldwide, most of whom acquired the virus in utero, during birth or while being breastfed, ways of contracting HIV that can be prevented.