Johannesburg - Aids is the number one cause of death among teenagers in Africa, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
Among HIV-affected populations, adolescents are the only group for which the mortality figures are not decreasing, the organisation said in a statement about its report titled “Statistical Update on Children, Adolescents and Aids”.
“It is critical that young people who are HIV-positive have access to treatment, care and support,” Craig McClure, the head of UNICEF’s global HIV and Aids programmes, said in the statement.
