1 December 2017
Today, as we commemorate World AIDS Day and celebrate the steady progress that has been made against the epidemic, 2,000 women will become infected with HIV. Tomorrow, another 2,000 women — many of them young women and girls living in sub-Saharan Africa — will join them. The next day, another 2,000. You get the picture.
The bottom line is that women bear the brunt of the HIV epidemic. HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of…