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Statistics that were released by the U.N. today:

• This year, AIDS has claimed approximately 2.9 million lives and another 4.3 million people became infected with HIV.

• Worldwide, more than 39 million people are HIV-positive.

• The sub-Saharan region of Africa has the highest concentration of the world's infections with 63 percent (24.7 million people).

• In East Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe, there are 21 percent more people infected with HIV than two years ago.

• There are 17.7 million women who are HIV-positive--and increase of more than a million in the last two years.

• Asia is the second most infect region in the world (8 million people).

• In North America, 1.4 million people are infected and the U.S. is estimated to have 1.2 million people.

• African Americans made up 50 percent of new AIDS diagnoses between 2001 and 2004 in the U.S. and Hispanics made up 20 percent of new cases.

• Since the first case of AIDS in 1981, over 25 million people have died worldwide.

Just something to be thankful for when you sit down to eat on Thursday.