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HIV/AIDS: Regional Updates for Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa has just over 10 percent of the world's population but is home to more than 60 percent of all people living with HIV ---25.8 million. In 2005, an estimated 3.2 million people in the region became newly infected, while 2.4 million adults and children died of AIDS HIV/AIDS has now infected roughly 50 million Africans since the start of the epidemic, of whom more than 22 million have died. Eight African countries have more than 1 million persons living with HIV/AIDS. The 21 countries with the world’s highest rates are all in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most worrisome, among 15-24 year-olds, 4.6% of women and 1.9% of men are already infected. This reveals the gender dynamics of the epidemic and foretells continued spread in the next generation. In all regions of the world, women are getting infected not only because they lack information, but because they lack the power to keep themselves safe. If more women and girls had the "right to abstain"; to decide when and with whom they have sex; to earn incomes adequate to feed their families – their ability to protect themselves from HIV would be real. Far too often, however, they don't.
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