SA: HIV stalls progress on MDGs

Nearly 800 South Africans died every day from AIDS-related illnesses in 2009 and more than 1110 became newly infected daily, according to the South African Health Review (SAHR) 2010, which reveals the immense challenges in achieving the eight goals set by the UN in 2000.

The country has not achieved the goal of universal access to ARV treatment for all those who need it by 2010, despite having by far the largest antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programme in the world, and will struggle to achieve the MDG of halting and reversing the spread of HIV and tuberculosis (TB) by 2015. Read the report.