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HIV & young people: what if we changed the rules?
2 décembre 2025
By Ana Espino | Published on December 2nd, 2025 | 2 min readHuman Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) remains a major public health issue, especially in high-prevalence countries where it continues to cause substantial morbidity and mortality. Young people—particularly young women—represent an especially vulnerable population. They often struggle to access appropriate health services, and many avoid test
By Ana Espino | Published on December 2nd, 2025 | 2 min read
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) remains a major public health issue, especially in high-prevalence countries where it continues to cause substantial morbidity and mortality. Young people—particularly young women—represent an especially vulnerable population. They often struggle to access appropriate health services, and many avoid testing or care due to fear of judgment or barriers such as distance, cost, or poor treatment by staff. Added to this is the fact that current services are poorly adapted to their needs: they are too fragmented between HIV care and sexual health, insufficiently flexible, difficult to access, and rarely designed with young people in mind.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) remains a major public health issue, especially in high-prevalence countries where it continues to cause substantial morbidity and mortality. Young people—particularly young women—represent an especially vulnerable population. They often struggle to access appropriate health services, and many avoid testing or care due to fear of judgment or barriers such as distance, cost, or poor treatment by staff. Added to this is the fact that current services are poorly adapted to their needs: they are too fragmented between HIV care and sexual health, insufficiently flexible, difficult to access, and rarely designed with young people in mind.
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Scientific reference
Simms, V., et al. (2025). Uptake of community-based integrated HIV and sexual and reproductive health services for young people in Zimbabwe: the CHIEDZA study. BMC health services research, 25(1), 1459
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