• 16.5% of adults between 15-49 are HIV positive. In the Copperbelt region, rates are even higher.
• Zambians have the lowest life expectancy in the world - just 37.5 years.
• There are over one million orphans in the country (1,100,000) most of whom have been orphaned by AIDS (630,000).
• Almost one in five children in Zambia is an orphan.