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Women and adolescent girls on the Fast-Track to ending the AIDS epidemic

20 May 2016

In parts of the world, most notably sub-Saharan Africa, women and adolescent girls are at greater risk of acquiring HIV infection than men and boys. Over half of all new adult HIV infections (aged 15+) in sub-Saharan Africa and almost half of all new HIV infections among adults in the Caribbean in 2014 were among women.