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Women: at the heart of the HIV response for children
Adolescents continue to bear the brunt of the epidemic
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Women: At the heart of the HIV response for children offers sobering statistics on the continuing global AIDS epidemic and its impact on the most vulnerable. Last year, 130,000 children and adolescents 19 and under died from AIDS, while 430,000 – almost 50 an hour – were newly infected.
Presented at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam in July 2018, the report says that adolescents continue to bear the brunt of the epidemic and that failure to reach them is slowing down the progress the world has made in the last two decades in tackling the AIDS epidemic.
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"HIV thrives among the most vulnerable and marginalized, leaving teenage girls at the centre of the crisis."
