How many AIDS orphans are there?

70,000 new AIDS orphans a year

It is important to know that an AIDS orphan is a child who became an orphan because one or both parents died from AIDS.  Statistics do not look too good.  Did you know that there are 70,000 new AIDS orphans a year?  There are more than 20 million AIDS orphans all over the world.  The most numerous AIDS orphans are in South Africa.  Moreover, the highest number of AIDS orphans as a percentage of all orphans was in Zimbabwe.