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Published in: Current HIV/AIDS Reports 2/2015

01-06-2015 | The Global Epidemic (SH Vermund, Section Editor)

Sustained High HIV Incidence in Young Women in Southern Africa: Social, Behavioral, and Structural Factors and Emerging Intervention Approaches

Authors: Abigail Harrison, Christopher J. Colvin, Caroline Kuo, Alison Swartz, Mark Lurie

Published in: Current HIV/AIDS Reports | Issue 2/2015

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Abstract

Young women in southern Africa experience some of the highest incidence rates of HIV infection in the world. Across southern Africa, HIV prevalence among women increases rapidly between the teenage years and young adulthood. Adult HIV prevalence is 16.8 % in South Africa, 23 % in Botswana, 23 % in Lesotho, and 26.5 % in Swaziland. Existing research has illuminated some of the key social, behavioral, and structural factors associated with young women’s disproportionate HIV risk, including gendered social norms that advantage male power in sexual relationships and age disparities in relationships between younger women and older male partners. Important structural factors include the region’s history of labor migration and legacy of family disruption, and entrenched social and economic inequalities. New interventions are emerging to address these high levels of HIV risk in the key population of young women, including structural interventions, biomedical prevention such as PrEP, and combined HIV prevention approaches.
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Metadata
Title
Sustained High HIV Incidence in Young Women in Southern Africa: Social, Behavioral, and Structural Factors and Emerging Intervention Approaches
Authors
Abigail Harrison
Christopher J. Colvin
Caroline Kuo
Alison Swartz
Mark Lurie
Publication date
01-06-2015
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Current HIV/AIDS Reports / Issue 2/2015
Print ISSN: 1548-3568
Electronic ISSN: 1548-3576
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11904-015-0261-0

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