Abstract
In 1982 AIDS claimed its first two South African victims. Twenty-two years later, at the 15th International HIV and AIDS conference held in Bangkok in mid-2004, the Joint United Nations (UN) Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) released their most recent statistics for South Africa. These indicated a disturbing increase in the years since the disease was first detected in South Africa. By December 2003, out of an official population of just over 43 million:
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5.3 million South Africans were HIV-positive;
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5.1 million of these people were economically active (i.e. between the ages of 15 and 49 years), representing 21.5 per cent of the adult (sexually active) population;
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370,000 AIDS-related deaths had occurred in South Africa in 2003 alone — more than 1,000 deaths a day; and
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the country had 1.1 million AIDS orphans.1
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Fourie, P. (2006). Introduction. In: The Political Management of HIV and AIDS in South Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230627222_1
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