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AIDS Epidemiology
HIV/AIDS becoming a young person's disease, U.N. reports
October 27th, 2003
Young people are increasingly responsible for the spread of HIV/AIDS around the world because of poverty and a severe lack of information and prevention services, the United Nations says. Every 14 seconds a person aged between 15 and 24 is infected with the virus. They now account for half of all new cases of the disease, the U.N. Population Fund said in its annual State of the World's Population report. "We will have a global catastrophe if we ignore young people and ignore their needs," said Thoraya Obaid, the agency's executive director, told a news conference in London. The "Making 1 Billion Count" report cautions that there...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2003-10-27)
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