• 1.4 million people will receive help in their home from the NHS
• more than 800,000 people will be treated in NHS hospital outpatient clinics
• 700,000 will visit a NHS dentist for a check-up
• NHS district nurses will make more than 700,000 visits
• over 10,000 babies will be delivered by the NHS
• NHS chiropodists will inspect over 150,000 pairs of feet
• NHS ambulances will make over 50,000 emergency journeys
• NHS Direct nurses will receive around 25,000 calls from people seeking medical advice
• pharmacists will dispense approximately 8.5 million items on NHS prescriptions
• NHS surgeons will perform around 1,200 hip operations, 3,000 heart operations and 1,050 kidney operations.

It is estimated that 20 million people have already died of HIV/AIDS.

Perhaps as many as 50 million more people are infected with the virus.

Over 4 million children have been infected since the virus first appeared.

Of the estimated 5 million people who became infected in 2003, seven hundred thousand were children almost entirely as a result of transmission during pregnancy or from breastfeeding.

Africa currently has 67% of the world’s people living with AIDS but only 11% of the world’s population.

One in 12 African adults is living with AIDS.

20% of people with AIDS live in Asia.

HIV/AIDS is creating millions of orphans each year.

In Uganda, 80% of children in HIV/AIDS-affected households in one typical village were taken out of school because of non-payment of fees or the children’s labour was needed.

In Zambia, the number of teachers who died of AIDS in 1998 was equivalent to 66% of the graduates from teacher training colleges.

In Malawi, the number of health workers dying or absent from work because of HIV/AIDS has reached crisis levels. The NHS in England and Wales has seen an overall increase in nurses of 67,000 in the past five years.

In Botswana, the death rate amongst children under the age of 5 is expected to exceed 100 per 1000 (ie 10%) by 2005. Without AIDS, it would have been less than half that rate.

There are currently 14 million children who have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS but by 2010, that figure is likely to be 25 million children.

The probability of a 15 year-old African boy dying before the age of 60 in the worst-affected areas has risen from 10-30% to nearly 60% with drastic implications for work productivity and economic growth.

Overall life expectancy in Africa as a whole has fallen to 48 years.

In South Africa, life expectancy is expected to drop from over 60 years to less than 50 by 2005.

The Government of Zambia currently spends £6 per head on healthcare each year. In Tanzania it is £3. In the UK, its over £1000 for each man, woman and child on healthcare alone.

HIV infection also impacts on other diseases increasing, for example, the incidence and severity of clinical malaria in adults.

People living with AIDS are estimated to be seven times more likely to develop TB than those who are not infected

The number of people worldwide needing anti-retroviral treatment for advanced stages of HIV infection is estimated to be around 6 million but only some 400,000 received treatment in 2003.

Half of the global treatment needs are concentrated in India and six African countries.

WHO aims to treat 3 million people by 2005. The report says “Faith-based organisations have a crucial role to play in the widespread uptake of HIV/AIDS treatments because of their influence within communities and their reach in rural and remote areas.”

One million is a statistic. Each child, each adult is a human being made in the image of God. “I was sick and you looked after me” Matthew 25: 36