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Interact Worldwide HIV

 There are almost 30 million people globally living with HIV today, and young people aged 15-24 account for half of all new infections. 2/3 of people living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa, where the epidemic is generalised and spreading most rapidly amongst young women.
  • 76% of HIV positive young people there are female.
  • In other regions the epidemic may be clustered in specific populations, but the rates of transmission are rising rapidly in the general population.
  • In South East Asia, for example, the number of people living with HIV increased by 50% between 2002 and 2004 alone.

Poverty and social marginalisation can leave people more vulnerable to HIV, and equally people who are HIV positive often become marginalised, stigmatised and suffer increased poverty. Interact Worldwide's work with Southern partners focuses on particularly marginalised groups, who find it most difficult to access prevention, treatment and care services:

  • Women, men who have sex with men, sex workers and intravenous drug users.

HELP FUND OUR PROGRAMMES WHICH HELP TO PREVENT HIV/AIDS AND PROVIDE TREATMENT AND CARE FOR THOSE INFECTED.

 

 
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WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES

£8 a month can provide the vital materials needed by a person living with HIV such as blankets, bed sheets, soap and insecticide for one year in Uganda.