how many people get killed by hiv each year
Statistics: Worldwide. Nearly 37 million people are now living with HIV. 2.6 million are under the age of 15. In 2014, an estimated 2 million people were newly infected with HIV. 220,000 were under the age of 15. Every day about 5,600 people contract HIVâmore than 230 every hour. In 2014, 1.2 million people died from AIDS. Since the beginning of the pandemic, nearly 78 million people have contracted HIV and close to 39 million have died of AIDS-related causes. As of March 2015, around 15 million people living with HIV (41% of the total) had access to antiretroviral therapy.