Subscribe & Follow

Advertise your job vacancies

Possible HIV decline in South Africa

HIV prevalence in South Africa appears to have stabilised and may even be declining, according to the latest figures in the government's 2006 National HIV and Syphilis Survey.

3 Aug 2007

The Department of Health study estimated that 29.1 percent of pregnant women were living with HIV in 2006, compared to 30.2 percent in the previous year.

Among pregnant women under the age of 20, HIV prevalence dropped from 15.9 percent to 13.7 percent, and fell from 30.6 percent to 28 percent among women aged between 20 and 24 during the same period.

However, experts at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) told IRIN/PlusNews that the drop was statistically too insignificant to warrant celebration.

See here for the full article http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72662