AIDS kills around 6000 people each day in Africa. Africa alone is an abode to 70 percent adults and 80 percent of children affected with AIDS. In 2001, 3 million deaths occurred due to this dreaded disease globally out of which 2.2 millions occurred in Africa alone. South Africa, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, Mozambique and DR Congo are among the Africa countries where more than a million people are affected with AIDS.

      Few of the countries in Africa have been consistently fighting the disease and there have been many successes too. However, the fight is still going on. Estimations are made on the basis on the 1996 census and projections of fertility and mortality. Adding the AIDS factor, estimations now have been scaled down by 300,000 persons. HIV is ranked as the tenth biggest killer. Experts also described demographic trends in the mortality figures as pointing unmistakably to South Africa's heavy HIV/AIDS burden. The highest numbers of deaths are among children younger.

       According to information from the Health Department in North West Province, there are an estimated 1600 new infections daily in South Africa. Within three years, almost a quarter of a million South Africans will die of AIDS each year and this figure will have risen to more than half a million by 2008. With a total of at least 4.2 million infected people (one tenth of the total population), South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world, as well as one of the world’s fastest growing epidemics. Already, 1 in 4 South African women between 20 and 29 years is infected with the virus. 

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