Abstract Black South Africans accounted for 6.2 out of 6.4 million people living with HIV in
South Africa in 2012, highlighting extreme racial disparities in HIV infection. These racial …

Background: Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) experience high rates of HIV early
in their sexual life course. We estimated the prevalence of HIV-associated vulnerabilities at …

Introduction Ugandan adolescent girls and young women are disproportionately impacted
by human immunodeficiency virus, and this is largely driven by their engagement in …

Background Young women in sub-Saharan Africa remain at the epicentre of the HIV
epidemic, with surveillance data indicating persistent high levels of HIV incidence. In South …

The burden of health risk behaviour (HRB) among adolescents living with HIV (ALWHIV) in
sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) is currently unknown. A systematic search for publications on …

Introduction Effective strategies to increase pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake and
continuation among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) who engage in sex work or …

Vaginal microbicides have the potential to give women at high risk of contracting HIV the
option of self-protection by preventing the sexual transmission of the virus. In this paper …

Background: In sub-Saharan Africa, HIV prevalence in adolescent girls and young women
(AGYW) is 2-fold to 3-fold higher than that in adolescent boys and young men …

Background The reasons for the persistence of risky sexual behaviours among adolescents
and young adults in sub-Saharan Africa despite the increasing knowledge about the …

Unsafe sex has become a public safety problem that endangers society, and research on
deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) related to unsafe sex is valuable for global …