Slowdown in HIV/AIDS Progress Puts Focus on Young Women
The Wall Street Journal - "Experts say the booming population of young women in sub-Saharan Africa means global infections could start rising. Public-health leaders in the fight against HIV/AIDS have come to an ominous realization: Progress in cutting new infections has slowed, in part because of a persistent cycle of transmission among young women in sub-Saharan Africa.
(...) The slowdown has alarmed public-health experts, who warn that infections could start rising again. A reversal would erase progress against one of the most significant infectious disease epidemics of modern times, costing lives, economic prosperity and billions more dollars than governments and organizations have already spent to fight it over decades." (Photo: World Bank Photo Collection/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)