Medical Xpress September 5, 2024
Young women worldwide face problems like unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. The 1.8 billion adolescents and young people (age 15-24) of both sexes worldwide account for 42% of new HIV infections.
Providing sexual and reproductive health education to young women is a priority in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 80% of young people globally living with HIV reside. Lesotho, a poor mountainous country in southern Africa, has the second-highest HIV prevalence in the world at nearly 23% of the population. The country is challenged by critically low numbers of health care personnel and a terrain that makes face-to-face interactions difficult.
In a study published in BMC Global and Public Health, researchers from the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine,...
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