The images of young sufferers are heart breaking In 2001 alone, 14 million children worldwide were orphaned by AIDS.
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An HIV-positive boy named Arun sits and watches as other HIV-positive children play at the Community Health Education Society orphanage in Madras, India. Arun, 3, was found abandoned and is now cared for by the orphanage, which receives support from USAID. India, with an estimated 5.7 million infections, is now home to the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world.
Thaahira, 2, right, cries as Muththamizh, 4, looks on at the Community Health Education Society orphanage in Madras, India. Both children are HIV-positive.
Five-month-old Gopika, who has been identified as HIV-positive, plays at the Community Health Education Society orphanage in Madras, India.
India's National Aids Control Organization says the estimated number of HIV infections in India is 5.1 million.
Vineeth, 7 months old and identified as HIV-positive, cries at the Community Health Education Society orphanage in Madras, India.
The World Health Organization estimates 800,000 children were infected with HIV in 2001 alone, almost all through mother-to-child transmission.
Nikita Druzhkov, pictured here at 20 months old, is one of 37 children housed in a special orphanage for HIV-infected children in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Beverly Alindi, 7, lies sick in her bed with pneumonia at the Nyumbani Hospice in Karen, a suburb of Nairobi, Kenya.
Overall adult HIV-infection rates in Kenya have dropped from 10 percent in the late 1990s to 7 percent in 2003.
An unidentified baby is fed at a home for HIV/AIDS-affected and abandoned children in Soweto, South Africa, on a past World Aids Day.
Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the hardest-hit region of the world -- 64 percent of new HIV infections occur there.
AIDS patient Fartin, a 7-year-old orphan staying at the Human Development Foundation's AIDS center in Bangkok, Thailand, displays her arms, covered with skin infections associated with the AIDS virus.
East Asia is among the regions experiencing the steepest increase in HIV infection.
man identified only as Jose lies in a bed isolated from the rest of the patients at the San Jose hospice in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, in May. He has a communicable bacterial infection and he suffers from the terminal stages of an AIDS-related illness. According to local health authorities and Jospice International, a Catholic organization that runs this hospice, Honduras registers more than 50 percent of Central American AIDS cases.
Natasha, 2, plays in the Republican Hospital for Infectious Diseases, which specializes in treating HIV-positive children in Ust-Izhora, outside St. Petersburg, Russia. Many Russian orphans born to HIV-positive mothers face discrimination from health and education officials.
Alice Mose wipes tears away as she talks about her 10 children who died of AIDS. Her surviving son, Moses, who has HIV, sits next to her in the city of Blantyre in Malawi, a country in southeastern Africa
A coffin seller waits for clients in Blantyre, Malawi, on May 23. Coffin shops are found on almost every corner here.
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