Today is National AIDS Awareness Day. AIDS is on the rise. Around 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, 2.5 million of which are young children. This is more than 50% higher than the figures supplied by WHO in '91. There were 3 million deaths caused by AIDS this year, half a million of which were children. By the end of 2001 14 million children (14 or younger) had been made orphans by AIDS. 14,000 new HIV infections occur every day. Over 8,000 people die every single day from AIDS.