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HIV and Adolescence

Stephan Faris writes that “it seems unrealistic to base policies on the expectation that asymptomatic HIV-positive youth will permanently abstain from sex.”

Stephan Faris writes that “it seems unrealistic to base policies on the expectation that asymptomatic HIV-positive youth will permanently abstain from sex, and foolish to drive them underground and away from the medication they’ve relied on since childhood. Today, the spread of resistant forms of the virus is still relatively rare in Africa, though it is said to be rising. … and it’s troubling to see the virus beginning to break through the first fire walls.”


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