Publish Year : | 2018 |
Publisher : | UNAIDS |
Link : | Click here |
Description : Ending the AIDS epidemic among children, adolescents and young women requires ambitious targets and a Super-Fast-Track approach. Building on the successes of the Global Plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive, UNAIDS, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and partners launched Start Free Stay Free AIDS Free in 2016 to provide a framework for the urgent work ahead. The report highlights concerns around new HIV infections among young women and girls. In 2016, around 200,000 adolescents between the ages of 15 and 19 years were newly infected with HIV in the 23 priority countries, 72% of whom were young women. Most—more than 70%—of all new HIV infections among young people are in sub-Saharan Africa, which also has the fastest growing youth population in the world.
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The guide serves as an important resource to complement and build on existing guidance and tools to...
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