Today is WORLD AIDS DAY.
The estimated number of people in Kenya in 2006 suffering from HIV was somewhere between 4 and 6 percent of the population of 36 million people. Some estimates are higher. In real terms this equates to more than 1 in 24 of the population.
If this isn't enough, the infant mortality rate in Kenya in 2006, for children under the age of 5, was 121 per 1,000. This is to say that under the age of 5, children in Kenya had less than a 90% chance of survival!
Statistics from UNICEF.
We have so much for which to be grateful.
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