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Adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa continue to be disproportionately affected by the AIDS epidemic. Approximately 4200 adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa acquire HIV every week. In 2020, five in six adolescents aged between 15 and 19 years newly acquiring HIV in the region were girls. An estimated 23 300 adolescent girls and young women