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Aids Focus

Zuma to launch strategic HIV/Aids plan

2011-12-01 07:27
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Aids experts launch 'CNN of virology'
Aids experts launch 'CNN of virology'

A new digital media service will foster the global collaboration of physicians and help them to share the latest advances in Aids and other virus research, its promoters say.

Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma will launch the new national strategic plan to fight HIV at a national World Aids Day event in Port Elizabeth on Thursday.

Zuma, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, who chairs the SA National Aids Council (Sanac), and Eastern Cape Premier Noxolo Kiviet will mark the 23rd commemoration of World Aids Day at the Wolfson stadium.

Cabinet ministers and members of Sanac will also attend.

On Tuesday, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi released the national antenatal sentinel HIV and syphilis prevalence survey eight months later than expected.

He said HIV-prevalence among pregnant women in the country had increased from 29.4% to 30.2%.

Prevention

There was a high degree of stabilisation in the percentage increase of pregnant women between ages 16 to 24 who were infected. However there had been an upward spike between the ages of 24 and 39.

Motsoaledi said prevention methods addressed at the youth as reasons why the numbers had stayed within the "confidence interval".

He attributed the high HIV prevalence in the older category to a lack of antiretrovirals (ARVs) and counselling.

According to the survey, KwaZulu-Natal still had the highest prevalence of HIV-infected pregnant women, while the Northern and Western Cape were the lowest.

Motsoaledi said the government would continue to increase its ARV rollout and HIV/Aids prevention strategies.

- How has HIV/Aids affected you? Send us your story.

- SAPA

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