“Treatment adherence in young people is often aggravated by psychological and social issues including depression, sexual abuse and lack of family support,” says one of the study’s authors, Dr Daniel W. Fitzgerald, from Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States of America. “Strategies targeting their special needs are urgently needed. In Haiti, we have opened an adolescent HIV clinic providing medical and psycho-social care with support from UNICEF.”

More than half of all new HIV infections in the world now occur in adolescents and young adults, and are acquired predominantly through sexual contact. In sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, the regions of the world most severely affected by HIV infection, two-thirds of young people infected with HIV-1 are women.

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Outbreak of a mystery virus in South Africa 
Why has the Japanese population experienced a reduction in blood pressure? 
Interview with Dr Donald A Henderson, chief of WHO’s global smallpox eradication campaign 
Evolution of the barefoot doctors in China 
How Mozambique is stopping the “brain drain” of its scientists 

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