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Asia's Aids Epidemic Needs Urgent Action To Prevent Even More Deaths

by The Daily Eye Team December 1 2015, 2:19 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 38 secs

At a time when HIV is in retreat globally, new infections are on the rise among some groups of adolescents in the Asia-Pacific region and globally.
This increase is largely out of sight, because those most at risk, such as young gay men, are overlooked by governments and society. More than half of the world’s 1.2 billion adolescents live in the Asia-Pacific region. Five hundred million adolescents live in just four countries – China, India, Indonesia and Pakistan, with HIV prevalence concentrated in big cities like Bangkok, Mumbai and Jakarta. In 2014, around 1,000 adolescents were newly infected with HIV every week in the region. The trend is cause for concern at a time when the world is celebrating impressive successes in the AIDS-response.Read More at www.theguardian.com