FWIW, a table listing ages of consent is available
here.
From the
Economist. Source is
here. Graph is
there.
Quote:
HIV in young people
Unequally at risk
May 7th 2009
From Economist.com
Two-thirds of young people with HIV are girls
YOUNG women are suffering disproportionately from HIV and AIDS according to a new report from UNICEF UK. Two-thirds of the 5.5m people aged 15-24 living with HIV are female. The biggest difference among the sexes is in sub-Saharan Africa, home to 3.4m of young HIV sufferers, where young females are around three times more likely to have HIV than males. Girls are more at risk through poor education, having multiple sexual partners or having sex with older men. Elsewhere in the developing world, it is young men who are more likely to have HIV.
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Avert, a charity, puts forth the case for young people receiving AIDS education as an important tool in stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS
here.