HIV/AIDS

• Globally, AIDS is the second most common cause of death among adolescents³⁶
• Around 35 million people lives with HIV, of which 2.1 million are adolescents (2013)³⁷
• There were 250 000 new HIV infections among adolescents in 2013, two thirds of which were among adolescent girls³⁸

Malaria

• There were 214 million cases of malaria globally, which led to 438,000 deaths³⁹
• 90% of these deaths happened in Sub-Saharan African⁴⁰
• 70% of deaths are children under the age of five⁴¹

Others

• 63% of all deaths worldwide are caused by Non-communicable diseases such as cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes and heart diseases.⁴²