Every three minutes, a teenager becomes HIV-positive

MARIELA CASTAÑÓN
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According to a new report from the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), a teenager gets HIV every three minutes. In addition, he explains that about 30 teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19 have contracted this virus every hour in 2017.

According to Henrietta Fore, executive director of Unicef, in most countries, Women and girls do not have access to information, services, or even the ability to say no to unprotected bad.

"HIV spreads among the most vulnerable and marginalized, leaving adolescents at the center of the crisis",

In the publication Women: At the center of the HIV response in children, statistics on HIV 39, global epidemic of AIDS are proposed. Last year, 130,000 children and adolescents (ANI) under the age of 19 died of AIDS and 430,000 (nearly 50 per hour) contracted the infection.