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	About Rwanda · Background reading · Webumentary (Quicktime) · Take Action!		The 1994 Genocide · Background reading · Links
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Did you know?

Rwanda has one of the highest HIV infection rates in the world, with 11.3 percent of its 8.1 million people infected. Of those who are infected, roughly 50 percent are women and about 13 percent are children under fifteen. The aftermath of the genocide has seen an increase in the spread of the epidemic, leaving Rwanda’s children especially vulnerable as these facts from UNICEF show:

• Rwanda is home to one of the world's largest proportions of child-headed households, with an estimated 101,000 children living in 42,000 households. These children are on-their-own either because their parents were killed in the genocide, have died from AIDS, or have been imprisoned for genocide-related crimes.
• Two thousand women, many of whom were survivors of rape, were tested for HIV during the five years following the 1994 genocide. Of them 80 percent were found to be HIV positive, and many were not sexually prior to the genocide.
• By 2001, an estimated 264,000 children had lost one or both parents to AIDS, representing 43 percent of all orphans. This figure is expected to grow to over 350,000 by 2010.
  

Find out how you and your community can help Rwanda’s children in their fight against HIV/AIDS by taking part in the YouthAIDs program.