A report released by UNAIDS,
a UN programme, on Monday said thousands of young
women and girls across the world are being infected with the HIV virus every week
and preventing new infections is still proving difficult.
The
report added that while UNAIDS was on course to hit a target of 30 million
people on ARV treatment by 2020, infection rates among young African women
remained disturbingly high.
Zambia
advances in fight against HIV-AIDS epidemic.
In 2015,
an estimated 7,500 teenagers and young women became infected with HIV
every week globally, with the bulk of them in southern Africa. Data showed
that in southern Africa, girls aged between 15 and 19 accounted for 90 percent
of all new HIV infections among 10 to 19-year-olds, and more than 74 percent in
eastern Africa.
Crucially,
the report found that between 2010 and 2015, the number of new HIV
infections among women aged 15 to 24 was reduced bby only 6 percent
across the world.
The number of HIV-infected people taking anti-retroviral (ARV) medicine was said to have doubled in just five years.
Source: Aljazeera
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