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July 25, 2007

Sugar Daddies Drive HIV in Uganda

Sex between older men and younger women in Uganda is partly to blame for girls’ high HIV infections, according to a new report, which found infection rates among young women aged 15 – 24 are four times as high as rates among young men that age. The report showed that almost 10 percent of Ugandan girls in secondary school have had sex with men 10 years their senior. 

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