By Sara Chute

According to the UNAIDS/WHO December 2009 report, there were an estimated 33.4 million adults and children living with HIV and AIDS worldwide at the end of 2008:
• 22.4 million, or 67 percent, live in Sub-Saharan Africa;
• Sixty percent of these African cases are women;
• An estimated 1.9 million people were newly infected with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2008; and
• Nine countries in Southern Africa continue to share a disproportionate burden of the global AIDS epidemic, with adult HIV prevalence greater than 10 percent in each of those countries.