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Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women and Adolescent Girls Living With HIV
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Sexual and Reproductive Health
Description
The number of cases of HIV and AIDS among women and adolescent girls in Brazil has been gradually increasing since the epidemic began. In the period from 1980 to June 2007, were identified 314,000 cases of AIDS among males and 160,000 among females1.