Africa: USAID's Catalyst Study Expands HIV Prevention Options for Women and Girls in Africa

📆 4/25/2024 5:06 AM
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A USAID-supported study is expanding options for HIV prevention products for women and girls in Africa, a population disproportionately affected by the virus; in sub-Saharan Africa adolescent girls and young women were more than three times as likely to acquire HIV than their male peers in 2022.

The study is also generating new evidence on product perspectives and preferences to help increase HIV prevention coverage and reduce new HIV infections.

USAID is a key implementing agency for PEPFAR which has saved more than 25 million lives since 2003. With this new study, USAID advances HIV prevention science for adolescent girls and young women, getting us closer to the goal of ending HIV as a public health threat by 2030.

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