Young women account for 60 per cent of the 5.5 million young people in the world living with HIV and/or AIDS.

With proper care and medications, young women living with HIV who want to have children can conceive without transmitting HIV to their partner or their baby.

Stigma against young women living with HIV contributes to discrimination, violence, denial of important services and the violation of sexual and reproductive rights.

IPPF believes that all girls and young women living with HIV have the right experience their sexuality in healthy and positive ways.

They also have the right to date, to be in relationships, to marry, to access sexual and reproductive health services and information, to have children and to decide if, how and when to disclose their HIV status.

The Family Life Association of Swaziland, an IPPF Member Association, supports girls and young women living with HIV to have positive and healthy lives.