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Large Africa study makes important breakthrough in HIV prevention

Large Africa study makes important breakthrough in HIV prevention

WOMEN make up more than half of the people living with HIV around the world. Young women between the ages of 10 and 24 are twice as likely to get HIV as young men in the same age group. In East and Southern Africa young women will acquire HIV on average five to seven years earlier than their male peers. SINEAD DELANY-MORETLWE, Associate Professor and Director: Research at the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute I, University of the Witwatersrand Researchers have been working hard to find effective HIV prevention measures. Most notable is the pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) pill known…
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