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SA SLASHES HIV INFECTIONS BY 41%
Ahead of World Aids Day, new HIV infections in SA down 41%, Aids-related deaths decrease
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CCORDING to a new report released ahead of World Aids Day (Saturday 1 December) by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids), South Africa has cut the rate of new HIV infections by 41% since 2001, with a drop of at least 50,000 in the last two years. The report found that these dramatic improvements were brought about by increasing domestic public investment in combating HIV/Aids to US$1.9billion in 2011 - a five-fold increase since 2006. South Africa has scaled up its provision of state-sponsored antiretroviral therapy by 75% in the last two years, ensuring that 1.7-million people had access to the life-saving treatment. The country has slashed the number of Aids-related deaths by 100,000 since 2005 - showing that antiretroviral therapy has emerged as a powerful force for saving lives. The area where the country had made perhaps the most progress, according to the UNAids report, was in reducing new HIV infections in children, with the number of children newly infected with HIV falling by at least 40% between 2009 and 2011. UNAids also found that these improvements in HIV prevention and treatment were echoed across
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LOVE AND LOSS: British-Nigerian playwright and actress Mojisola Adebayo and South African dancer Mamela Nyamza perform in I Stand Corrected, on stage at at Ovalhouse Theatre in London until 8 December fresh from its sell-out run in South Africa. Telling the story of two black lesbian lovers who try to touch each other across the supernatural divide, the play is a response to the epidemic of ‘corrective’ rape in South Africa. Read more on thesouthafrican.com/entertainment
sub-Saharan Africa, the part of the world most affected by HIV. Since 2001, rates of new HIV infections have been cut by 73% in Malawi, 71% in Botswana, 68% in Namibia, 58% in Zambia, 50% in Zimbabwe and 41% in Swaziland.
At the same time, sub-Saharan Africa has reduced its Aids-related deaths by one-third in the last six years and increased the number of people on antiretroviral treatment by 59% in the last two years alone. Impressive gains were also made
in cutting deaths from tuberculosis in people living with HIV, the report found, with TB-related Aids deaths in sub-Saharan Africa falling by 28% in the last two years. ...continues on next page
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Getting festive in the Mother City | p16 Planning a trip to Cape Town this Christmas but feeling out of the loop on the latest happenings and hotspots the city has to offer? Here’s your guide to the hippest bars, restaurants, events and New Year’s parties in the Mother City this festive season.
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