Local HIV/AIDS info

Cameroon has a generalised HIV/AIDS epidemic with women and young people disproportionately affected.

Cameroon has a large adolescent population and there is a high incidence of early marriage and pregnancy (in and out of marriage) among girls under the age of 19. This leads to a variety of risk factors including exposure to unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortion and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) that threaten their sexual and reproductive health. But there are cultural, political and religious barriers that hinder the open acknowledgement of these practices and need to be addressed.

There are also a number of high-risk groups including truck drivers, residents along the pipe line from Chad-Cameroon, commercial sex workers and the army. However funding is not focused on these high-risk groups.