The AIDS epidemic is not over



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Marie Thieffry

Begun on Monday in Amsterdam, the 22nd International AIDS Conference brings together thousands of participants for five days. The latest figures remain alarming: 1.2 million young people between 15 and 19 years old were living with HIV in 2017. Three in five were young women

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'political and financial commitment to combating HIV decreases considerably, alert Maureen Louhenapessy, deputy director of the "AIDS prevention" platform. The impact on the ground in already fragile environments is already being felt. These remarks echo those held by the participants of the 22nd
                    international conference on AIDS that began this Monday in Amsterdam. Worried about the limited efforts currently being made, all have pointed out the vulnerability of a particular international population: that of adolescent girls, who are the most affected by this epidemic far from being over.

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