More than half the 37.5 million people living with HIV worldwide are female. Every week 7,500 young women are infected, and globally HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death of women aged fifteen to forty-four.4 In sub-Saharan Africa, young women between fifteen and twenty-four are twice as likely to be infected with HIV as young men.5 In some parts of KwaZulu-Natal, an eastern province of South Africa, a fifteen-year-old girl has an 80 percent chance of being infected with HIV.6 Eighty percent! To be interested in HIV is to be pulled to the bottom of the African continent as if by a tractor
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