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 Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 2:11 am Post subject: UN Says Aids in South Africa is Stabilising |
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UN Says Aids in South Africa is Stabilising
4th Dec. '08
South Africa is one of the three countries in southern Africa where the prevalence of HIV/Aids has stabilised, according to a report from the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids). The 2008 Report on the Global Aids Epidemic finds that the prevalence of HIV/Aids in South Africa, Malawi and Zambia were decreasing.
The report also provided encouraging data on the trend of HIV/Aids epidemic in South Africa and the African continent. According to the report, of the three million people on anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment worldwide by 2007, South Africa accounted for close to 429 000, up from only 55 000 in 2004.
According to the UNAids report, close to 160 000 HIV-positive people who also had Tuberculosis (TB) received TB and HIV treatment in 2007. The report acknowledged the efforts being made in the area of prevention, noting that some 96% of South African schools were providing life skills based HIV education in the last academic year.
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