{"id":76356,"date":"2025-10-09T11:48:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76356"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:48:36","slug":"4000-young-women-contract-hiv-weekly-ahf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/09\/4000-young-women-contract-hiv-weekly-ahf\/","title":{"rendered":"4,000 Young Women Contract HIV Weekly -AHF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), has warned that about 4,000 adolescent girls and young women contract HIV every week globally, with over 3,300 cases recorded in sub-Saharan Africa alone.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the 2025 International Day of the Girl, AHF\u2019s Senior Advocacy Manager, Steve Aborisade, said the trend reflects a widening gender gap in HIV infections, linking it to poor access to education, gender-based violence, and limited reproductive health services.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that 1.9 million adolescent girls and young women were living with HIV in 2023, compared to 1.2 million adolescent boys and young men.<\/p>\n<p>AHF Nigeria\u2019s Country Programme Director, Dr. Echey Ijezie, described the situation as alarming and urged greater investment in education, empowerment, and healthcare access.<\/p>\n<p>AHF Nigeria will mark the Day of the Girl with an outreach at Community Commercial Secondary School, Akwa Ibom, featuring mentorship, menstrual hygiene education, and free sanitary pad distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), has warned that about 4,000 adolescent girls and young women contract HIV every week globally, with over 3,300 cases recorded in sub-Saharan Africa alone. Ahead of the 2025 International Day of the Girl, AHF\u2019s Senior Advocacy Manager, Steve Aborisade, said the trend reflects a widening gender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76358,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76356\/revisions\/76358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}