Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned from AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. (www.changethroughchildren.aed.org)

Only half of Africa's children will complete primary school and one in six will die before their fifth birthday. (www.makepovertyhistory.org)

Universal primary education throughout the world would prevent 700,000 cases of HIV each year, almost 30% of all new infections in this age group. (www.infoforhealth.org)

Providing universal primary education would cost just $10 billion a year. (www.makepovertyhistory.org)