AIDS is Sexist: Why continued investments in the Global Fund are more important than ever
www.one.org - "Despite the gains that have been made in the fight against HIV/AIDS over the past 15 years, progress for women and girls has faltered. In many parts of the world, adolescent girls and young women are at a much greater risk of acquiring HIV than boys and men of the same age due to social and structural factors like exploitative attitudes toward sex, the prominence of intimate partner violence, and the inaccessibility of education.
Nowhere is this trend more problematic than sub-Saharan Africa, where young women are twice as likely as young men to be living with HIV and where 715 young women age 15-24 are infected with HIV each day. In 2013, 74% of HIV infections in adolescents in Africa were among girls."