TITLE

AIDS: older men infect teenage girls

PUB. DATE
December 1999
SOURCE
New Internationalist;Dec99, Issue 319, p6
SOURCE TYPE
Periodical
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Focuses on the findings of a report presented at the World AIDS Conference, which suggest that young African women and girls are up to six times more likely to be infected with HIV than males of the same age. Major risk factor for teenage girls; Need to target safer-sex education at young girls and older men in African countries.
ACCESSION #
2670054

Tags: HIV infections -- Risk factors;  SEX education;  TEENAGE girls -- Sexual behavior

 

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