day 6

is Chaotic Hammer, who says

* Since the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in 1983, more than 25 million people have died from this deadly disease.

* Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned by AIDS.

* More than 12 million African children and 15 million children worldwide have lost one or both parents to AIDS.

* By 2010, it's projected that more than 25 million children worldwide will be orphaned by AIDS.

* There are 14,000 new HIV infections each day: around 2,000 of those daily infections are in children younger than 15 years of age and 6,000 are in young people ages 15-24.

* Currently, 38.6 million people in the world live with HIV; 24.5 million of those live in sub-Saharan Africa.

* 2.3 million children younger than 15 years of age live with HIV.

* Nine out of 10 children living with AIDS are African.

* Females are 12-20 percent more vulnerable to HIV transmission than males of the same ages.

* Every minute a child under 15 dies of an AIDS-related illness.

* Each month, more people die from AIDS than were killed in the Southeast Asia tsunami that shocked the world in late 2004.