Connor’s Africa Service Trip

• Over 70% percent of Zambians live in poverty.
• Per capita annual incomes are currently at about $395.
• Life expectancy at birth is about thirty-seven years.
• Maternal mortality is 729 per 100,000 pregnancies.
• HIV/AIDS is the nation’s greatest problem, with 17% prevalence among the adult population.
• Nearly one million Zambians are HIV positive or have AIDS. An estimated 100,000 died of the epidemic in 2004.
• Over a half-million Zambian children have been orphaned.

Source: Wikipedia