Women and girls, HIV and AIDS
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چکیده
Young women (10-24 years), and adolescent girls (10-19 years) in particular, account for a disproportionate number of new HIV infections. In fact, young women are twice as likely to acquire HIV as their male counterparts.3 In 2015, 20% of new HIV infections among adults were among women aged 15-24 despite this group only accounting for 11% of the global adult population.4 This equates to some 7,500 young women across the world acquiring HIV every week.5
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