SAN FRANCISCO: Young girls are more likely to be affected by AIDS than young boys, and the numbers are increasing, a UNICEF report says.
According to media reports, a UNICEF report states that in 2022, approximately 98,000 adolescent girls worldwide will test positive for the HIV virus. Additionally, 384 women between the ages of 10 and 19 are infected with HIV every day worldwide.
Dr. Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine and associate chief of the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF General Hospital in San Francisco, said that a combination of cultural and economic factors has contributed to women’s HIV cases. is the main reason for the increasing number of which makes girls extremely vulnerable to forced sex.
He said that it also includes economic conditions due to which young girls engage in sexual relations to get money or food.
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On the other hand, Dr. William Schaffner, professor of health policy and professor of medicine in the department of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Tennessee, said that the patriarchal society is also to blame for the rising level of AIDS-affected women. Around the world, women are valued less than men, so testing and treatment are not as available to them as to men.
He added that the second thing is that men often take advantage of women. HIV-infected men transmit their infection to these women, and then these women do not even get the opportunity to get tested, so they are not treated as comprehensively as men.
