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In Sub-Saharan Africa 55 percent of the people infected with HIV are women and in some African countries, females aged 15-24 have prevalence rates up to six times higher than those of males of the same age. `All too often, HIV prevention is failing women and girls’ said Peter Piot, Director of UNAIDS, at the launch of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, in London on 2nd February 2004. It is not only prevention which is failing women; access to treatment and initiatives to mitigate the impact of the epidemic are also failing because the HIV/AIDS epidemic is fuelled by existing inequalities. This inequality is not just between

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