Category: sexual violence

Innovation and Commitment Needed to Turn Back the HIV Epidemic Among Girls

A girl leans against a tree in the village of Usoma, Kenya.

Director of CDC’s Division of HIV & TB Shannon Hader on 2015 International Day of the Girl Every year, an astonishing 380,000 adolescent girls and young women are infected with HIV. That’s more than 1,000 every day. These numbers are worth noting any day, but it’s especially relevant today as we recognize International Day of Read More >

October 8, 2015 by Shannon Hader, Director of CDC’s Division of HIV & TB

Archive, child health, HIV/AIDS, women's/maternal health

Families Matter!, HIV and women, International Day of the Girl, Project AIM, sexual violence, VACS