Every week more than 5000 adolescent girls and young women acquire HIV. And the vast majority of them live in southern Africa, write Deborah Baron and Sinead Delany-Moretlwe in The Conversation Africa.
For many years, the fight against HIV/Aids was led largely by international donors... It is time for governments across Africa... to step up and commit the political and financial resources needed to stop the epidemic in its tracks, writes Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO Regional Director for Africa.
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