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facts and figures
5,500
young women aged 15-24 become infected with HIV every week. young women and girls aged 15-24 years are 2x more likely to be living with HIV than men.
88%
of adolescents aged 10-19 years living with HIV globally live in sub saharan Africa. That is about 1.5 million of the 1.7 million adolescents living with HIV globally
460,000
number of young people aged 10-24 who got newly infected with HIV in 2019. 170,000 of them were adolescents aged 10-19
that means there are more young people living with HIV in Africa than any other continent in the world!
did you know?
Only 27% of girls and 16% of boys (aged 15-19) in East and Southern Africa were tested for HIV in the past 12 months in 2019 (West and Central Africa testing rates are lower)
Also...
Since the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, more than 75 million people have contracted the illness, and over 36 million have died from an HIV-related cause.
