Sub-Saharan Africa Adult Prevalence-7.4%

Sub-Saharan Africa is by far the worst affected region, being home to about 10% of the world's population, and accounting for more than 60% of all people living with HIV. Infection is fact becoming endemic in this region. Even if significant improvements are made in the battle and incident rates are drastically reduced, prevalence levels are high
enough that countries in the region will have to deal with serious AIDS epidemics for many years to come. Adult prevalence rates have stabilized in recent years, which sounds like a good thing but disguises the fact that equally large numbers of people are becoming newly infected with HIV as are dying from AIDS. Women are now disproportionately affected by HIV, especially young women (15-25 years). Recent studies suggest that there are 3.6 young women living with HIV in the region for every young man. Not enough can be said of
how terrible a toll AIDS is taking in this region, serious work must be done to fight it and much help is needed.