2-4 Million: Girls (some as young as five years old) who will be sold into sexual slavery in 2009.
2/3: Percentage of those girls who are sold by someone they know.
10-20: Number of men they are forced to meet with each night.
60: Percent chance a girl will contract HIV if she is sold into sexual slavery before age 15.
$7-12 Billion: Profits in U.S. dollars generated from sex slavery each year (human trafficking is the second largest organized crime industry in the world).
4,000: Number of girls rescued from slavery by world-renowned Cambodian activist Somaly Mam. Mam, a former victim of sexual slavery, started the Somaly Mam Foundation (somaly.org) to end human trafficking.
Sources: JAMA, Somaly Mam Foundation. Somaly Mam is the author of The Road of Lost Innocence: the True Story of a Cambodian Heroine, a memoir that recounts her early life in brothels, how she escaped, and the founding of her organization.