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Your Gift Gives a Future to AIDS Victims and Orphans

With 15 million AIDS orphans around the world — a number that’s only going to grow in the coming years — Heifer International is launching an urgent $1-million campaign to alleviate the suffering caused by this killer disease and give hope to future generations.

Heifer has a new HIV/AIDS strategy to help fight the pandemic, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. But we can't do it without your help. Please make a gift today so that we can help people achieve the improved nutrition that makes anti-retroviral medicines more effective. Help us extend lives and keep families together.

The vicious legacy of HIV/AIDS pandemic is rapidly increasing hunger, poverty and environmental degradation throughout the world. Experts say the pandemic is wiping out many of the development gains of the past 20 years in some of the world's most hard pressed countries.

That’s why your gift is so urgently needed right now to help us expand our work with the victims of this terrible disease. We will put your gift to work immediately to improve the futures of those in greatest need.

Your gift will help Heifer directly address the problems associated with HIV/AIDS, and that supports our core mission to alleviate hunger and poverty while protecting the environment.

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HIV/AIDS
By The Numbers

15 million children have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS. That's more than the combined total of all the children under the age of five in 48 of the 50 states in the U.S.

96 percent of all HIV cases are in the developing world.

25 million in Sub-Saharan Africa are HIV positive.

Every 60 seconds a child dies of HIV/AIDS related diseases.

14,000 people contract HIV worldwide every day.

75 percent of all the young people infected are women and girls.