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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) - Large Africa study makes important breakthrough in HIV prevention

Title:
Large Africa study makes important breakthrough in HIV prevention
 
Author:
Sinead Delaney-Moretlwe, Associate Professor and Director: Research at the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute I, University of the Witwatersrand

Published:
The Conversation, 15 November 2020

From the article:
Women make up more than half of the people living with HIV around the world. Young women between the ages of 10 and 24 are twice as likely to get HIV as young men in the same age group. In East and Southern Africa young women will acquire HIV on average five to seven years earlier than their male peers.  
 
Researchers have been working hard to find effective HIV prevention measures.