This is a picture of 7-year-old boy living with AIDS, who was publicly blessed by Pope John Paul II. Around the world, an estimated 5 million people became infected with HIV in 2001, 800,000 of them children. At the end of 2001, the estimated number of children (aged 0-14 years) living with HIV/AIDS was 3 million. More about HIV and AIDS around the world can be found at http://www.avert.org/aroundworld.htm

This photo is part of a larger HIV and AIDS picture gallery. For more HIV and AIDS photos visit www.avert.org/historyi.htm

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Photo credit: � UNICEF/Kobre