New info on HIV among adolescents and young adults from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that young people represent a quarter of all new HIV infections.

• "Nearly 60% of new infections among youth occur in African Americans, about 20% in Hispanics/Latinos and about 20% in whites.
• About 70% of youth were infected with HIV through male-to-male sex, 20% from heterosexual sex, 4% from injection drug use and about 4% from a combination of male-to-male sex and injection drug use.
• Young gay and bisexual men and African Americans are hit harder by HIV than their peers.
• About 86% of young females got HIV through heterosexual sex and 13% from injection drug use.
• The percentage of youth tested for HIV overall was 12.9% among high school students and 34.5% among those aged 18–24 years; it was lower among males than females, and lower among whites and Hispanics/Latinos than blacks/African Americans."

More later on this; but it's clear that while we are making progress, young people, especially the most vulnerable groups, must be given better tools to protect themselves from HIV -  and barriers to prevention, treatment, and care must be dismantled.