On International Women's Day, UNAIDS is Urging Countries to Stop 1 Million Women and Girls from Becoming Infected with HIV Every Year

8 March 2017

On International Women’s Day UNAIDS has released a new report which shows that there is an urgent need to scale up HIV prevention and treatment services for women and girls. The report, 'When women lead, change happens,' shows that globally in 2015, there were 18.6 million women and girls living with HIV, 1 million women and girls became newly infected with HIV and 470 000 women and girls died of AIDS-related illnesses.

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