Africa: UNAIDS Urges End to Gender-Based Violence in Effort to Reduce Risk of HIV Infection

... such violence facing a 50 per cent increased risk of acquiring the virus, according to the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). "Every hour 50 young women become newly infected with HIV," UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidib said in a message ...

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