TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Sexual Violence and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Intimate Link
JO  - Local environment
A1  - Aniekwu, Nkolika Ijeoma
A1  - Atsenuwa, Ayo
SP  - 313
EP  - 324
VL  - 12
IS  - 3
N2  - Sexual violence is an epidemic that often overlaps with the AIDS pandemic and is often a cause and consequence of the spread of HIV/AIDS amongst women and girls. Presently, half or more of the 40 million people infected with HIV in the world are women. Millions of those infected are aged 15–24 years and have suffered some form of intimate partner violence. This group accounts for half of all new infections. In sub-Saharan Africa, young women account for 75% of HIV infections and are approximately two-and-a-half times more likely to be infected than young men of the same age (UNAIDS, Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic: 4th Global Report, Geneva, 2004). What makes women, especially girls and younger women, so disproportionately vulnerable to HIV infection, and why have current AIDS control efforts in sub-Saharan Africa largely failed to stem the epidemic in this gender?<p /> 
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SN  - 1354-9839
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549830601098289
ID  - ref1
ER  -