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HIV/Aids in Africa: the price being paid by young women
Progress is being made on HIV/AIDS, but not for young women. In South Africa there are almost twice as many HIV-affected females as males. The gender gap is even wider in younger population groups, where HIV incidence is four times higher among young women than their male counterparts. It is an unacceptable situation whose causes include poverty, the status of women and, most of all, the violence to which they are subjected.
