Photo Credit: Leanne Gray, FHI 360
The 21st International AIDS Conference in Durban was a celebration of the progress we have made in the last 16 years since the conference was last held in South Africa. Despite this progress, we know that young women around the world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, are two to three times more likely to acquire HIV than young men in their same age group.
In an effort to make unheard voices heard, the OPTIONS Consortium and WHO co-sponsored two workshops at AIDS 2016 that offered a forum for oral PrEP and ring users to share their thoughts, challenges, and needs regarding their sexual and reproductive health (SRH). To learn more about what was shared, read our OPTIONS blog, which was the feature story in July’s In Focus: End HIV for Her e-newsletter.