South African adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) are at high risk of HIV infection due to multiple factors that serve as barriers to young women’s ability to protect themselves from HIV or to effectively treat HIV. These factors include gender inequalities, age disparate relationships, gender-based violence (GBV), low levels of education, lack of access to adequate sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and stigma and discrimination.

To alleviate HIV among AGYW, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria invested in a combination HIV prevention intervention for AGYW with the aim of reducing HIV incidence, teenage pregnancy, and GBV, and to increase retention in school and access to economic opportunities. Combination HIV prevention interventions, which merge effective biomedical, behavioural and structural interventions for combined delivery, are one of the key strategies for reaching the 95-95-95 targets and achieving the SDG goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030. 

View the complete Qualitative Study Component Report: Impact of a Combination HIV Prevention for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa