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By Audrey Woods
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Youth hard hit by HIV/AIDS
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LONDON — Early mar
riage, unwanted pregnancy
and HIV/AIDS among the
world’s adolescents are a
threat to development and
must be combatted as part of
the war on poverty, the United
Nations said Wednesday.
A fifth of the world’s popula
tion — 1.2 billion people — is
between 10 and 19, more than
ever before, the United Nations
says. Half are poor and a quarter
live in extreme poverty on less
than a dollar a day.
“How well we prepare them
to face adult challenges in a fast
changing world will shape
humanity’s common future,” the
United Nations Population Fund
said on its Web site in a prelude
to Wednesday’s publication in
London of its annual State of the
World’s Population report.
Helping young people with
reproductive health issues has
become an urgent priority, the
report says, calling for more
investment in youth-friendly
services, family planning and
education programs.
HIV/AIDs has become a dis
ease of the young, fueled by
poverty and severe lack of infor
mation and prevention services,
the report says. Half of all new
HIV infections are among peo
ple aged 15 to 24, and a majori
ty of the young don’t know how
the disease is transmitted.
In sub-Saharan Africa, where
the spread of HIV/AIDS among
youths is fastest, about 8.6 mil
lion have HIV/AIDS — 67 per
cent of them female.
South Asia follows, with 1.1
millions youths infected — 62
percent of them female.
Poverty is a factor in the
Young people ages 15 to 24 now account for half
of the world’s new cases of HIV/AIDS, the United
Nations said Wednesday in its annual State of the
World’s Population Report. Of the 11.8 million
15- to 24-year-olds living with HIV/AIDS worldwide,
more than 60 percent are female.
Young people (ages 15-24) living with HIV/AIDS
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Africa and Asia and America and Pacific
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SOURCE: United Nations
spread of HIV, the report says,
because some poor girls
exchange sex for money for
school fees or to help their
families, placing them at risk
of infection.
Discussing sexual behavior is
taboo in many countries, so
many young people do not have
the information they need to
protect themselves. In Somalia,
the report says, only 26 percent
of adolescent girls have heard of
AIDS and only 1 percent know
how to protect themselves.
Among the poorest and least-
educated populations, early
marriage of girls and expecta
tions of early childbearing per
sist, contributing to high mater
nal mortality and reducing girls’
chances for education.
The report backs up these con
clusions with harsh statistics.
Teenage mothers are twice as
likely to die in childbirth
women in their 20s, girls tin
16 are five times more likely
die than women in their 20s, a
14 million young mothers aj
15-19 give birth each year.
About 5 million girls between
15 and 19 undergo unsafe abor
tion every year, the report says.
“Studies show that money
spent to delay births to
cents and prevent HIV ii
is repaid many times over in direct
savings and indirect economic
gains,” the report says.
“Enabling young people to
delay or avoid pregnancy, cou
pled with education and job
opportunities and respect for
their rights, can have enormous
economic benefits for families,
communities and nations and
help alleviate poverty at all lev
els,” it says.
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