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Understanding the Relationships Between HIV and Child Marriage: Conclusions From an Expert Consultation
Journal of Adolescent HealthVol. 64Issue 6p694–696Published in issue: June, 2019- Suzanne Petroni
- Rachel Yates
- Manahil Siddiqi
- Chewe Luo
- Arwyn Finnie
- Damilola Walker
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Cited in Scopus: 3Research on child marriage from the first decade of the 2000s was largely, and we now know, often mistakenly, interpreted to suggest that child brides—girls who marry under the age of 18 years—faced a higher vulnerability to and higher rates of HIV acquisition than girls and women who married later [1–4]. In one of the starkest statements on the perceived connection, a paper stemming from a December 2003 global consultation stated that “married adolescent girls tend to have higher rates of HIV infection than their sexually active, unmarried peers” [5].