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Considering the fact that across the world, gender inequality, poverty and gender based violence continue to stoke excessive HIV risk among women, all measures meant to tackle new HIV infections are the most welcome.
Globally, in 2018 an estimated 18.8 million women aged 15 years and older were living with HIV. That is 52% of all people aged 15 years and older living with HIV.
Considering that every week, around 6000 young women aged 15-24 years become infected with HIV. That’s 860 every day,
Considering that in sub-Saharan Africa, the region with the largest HIV epidemics in the world, women accounted for 59% of new infections among adults (older than 15 years).
Considering that the world is still a long way from achieving the global target of reducing new HIV infections,
The International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) in collaboration with Rinda Ubuzima, Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) and CSOs are organizing a Dapivirine Ring Awareness Campaign. This campaign’s main focus is of making accessible the information that there is a new way of prevention that is being made available to help women in their fight against the spreading of HIV.
This awareness campaign’s aim is to decrease the HIV spreading rate in Rwanda’s women communities, by encouraging the use of Dapivirine Ring, once approved by regulatory bodies in Rwanda, as a new HIV prevention tool.