Complacency a key concern as HIV epidemic persists in Africa.
AIDS has no cure. HIV is still here. But some people are forgetting that.officials try to stem stubbornly high infection rates among young people in this East African country that years ago won praise as a global leader in fighting the epidemic.
Africa’s young people, especially girls, are among the worst affected. Girls made up 79% of new HIV infections in people ages 10 to 19 in East and southern Africa in 2017, according to UNAIDS. “A lot of the young people, now adolescents, were not old enough to see the old HIV, how aggressive it was,” said Dr. Nelson Musoba, chief of the Uganda AIDS Commission. “We are telling them that ... if you are not an adult, please abstain.”
Earlier this year Ugandan health authorities released a report saying an estimated 1,000 people get infected with HIV every week, 34% of them between ages 15 and 24.
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