The document discusses how HIV/AIDS is severely affecting Sub-Saharan Africa, where over 22 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, accounting for over half of all people in the world living with the virus. Some key facts presented are that during 2005 over 2.3 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa died from AIDS, averaging 1 death every 13 seconds, and that AIDS now causes more deaths in Africa than any war. The wide-ranging economic and social impacts of the AIDS epidemic in Africa are also discussed.