The Facts
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Women now account for an estimated 30% of new HIV infections as well as a growing share of new AIDS cases. 1 CDC, HIV/AIDS Update: A Glance at the Epidemic, February 2002. 2 CDC, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Reports, 1986–2001.
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The number of women living with HIV has tripled in the last two decades; by 2005, 26% of people living with HIV were women.
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80% of newly diagnosed HIV-positive women contracted the virus through heterosexual sex.
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33 million people in the world live with HIV/AIDS and the vast majority are unaware of their HIV status
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About 12 million young people between 15 to 24 live with HIV/AIDS
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7,400 more people are infected with HIV every day! Almost half of them are under 25!
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Young women are about three times more vulnerable to HIV infection that their male peers.
http://youthink.worldbank.org/issues/aids/
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The Truth
Unprotected sex is the most common way that people get AIDS and contract HIV. If you have sex with an HIV positive person and there is direct contact between the penis and vagina or anus, you can easily get infected.
The virus lives in the fluids inside the penis and vagina and can easily enter your bloodstream. The male condom is the only widely available barrier against sexual transmission of HIV.
http://www.amfar.org/abouthiv/article.aspx?id=3352#How_is_HIV_transmitted?
