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In 2017, about thirty teenagers aged 15 to 19 received HIV every hour. Two thirds of them are girls. This means that every three minutes a teenager is infected with HIV. All this emerges from a new report from the Unicef Child Rights Organization
UNICEF spokesperson Gerrit van den Berg calls the new report "alarming". In other age groups, the number of infections decreases. The same thing applies to the number of deaths due to AIDS. This does not only fall in the 15-19 age group.
HIV inhibitors
whether or not they have a very important role, "says Van Den Berg.With HIV inhibitors, the virus can be properly controlled. HIV-positive people can not transmit the virus to other people, but this is not enough to protect adolescents, and girls in particular, against HIV
. a question of HIV and AIDS and a colleague told me the story of a 15-year-old girl in the Nigerian countryside.In the poor village where she lived, a man from the big city She had slept with this man, in exchange for a little money, but she had no idea of the risks she was running with that time. consequences of your life. "
In many countries where HIV is common, children and adolescents often have sexual abuse at a young age, says Van den Berg. "These kids should have the opportunity to say no to sex, and we can not leave them out in the cold."
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