USAID continues to support activities that focus on issues facing women, girls, and HIV/AIDS

APRIL 2005 — Every day, 6,000 people 15-24 years of age are infected by HIV. Females make up two-thirds of these new cases. Funding from the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through USAID to the Implementing AIDS Prevention and Care (IMPACT) Project, carried out by Family Health International, helps to address some of the economic, social, and cultural factors that contribute to this gender disparity. Because the steepest increase in HIV/AIDS cases in the past two years has been among females in East Asia, much attention has been directed toward that part of the world.

Source: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).