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Transgender people remain severely underserved in the response to HIV, with only 43% of countries reporting in 2012 that their national AIDS strategies addressed transgender people. Transgender women are among the populations most heavily affected by HIV worldwide. According to a review of available studies from 15 countries, an estimated 19% of transgender women were living with HIV—the odds of HIV infection being 49 times greater in trans¬gender women than for all adults of reproductive age in these countries.