You don't hear much about people dying from AIDS anymore, at least not like in the 80s.
Statistics: Worldwide
More than 34 million people now live with HIV/AIDS.
3.3 million of them are under the age of 15.
In 2011, an estimated 2.5 million people were newly infected with HIV.
330,000 were under the age of 15.
Every day nearly 7,000 people contract HIV—nearly 300 every hour.
In 2011, 1.7 million people died from AIDS. 230,000 of them were under the age of 15.
Since the beginning of the epidemic, more than 60 million people have contracted HIV and nearly 30 million have died of HIV-related causes.