{"id":2673,"date":"2005-07-12T16:06:20","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T15:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/07\/12\/aids-war-time-running-out-for-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:43:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:43:45","slug":"aids-war-time-running-out-for-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/07\/aids-war-time-running-out-for-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"AIDS War. Time running out for South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big jump in South African HIV cases<\/a><\/h4>\n

\"AIDSSouth Africa’s health department has released figures suggesting that HIV infection rates in the country may be greater than previously thought.<\/strong> South Africa could have the world’s largest number of people living with HIV.<\/p>\n

HIV infection in South Africa:<\/strong>
\n• Population – 40m
\n• Health Dept – 6m+ with HIV
\n• Statistics agency – 4.5m with HIV<\/p>\n

SA military fights ‘war’ on Aids<\/a><\/h4>\n

South African military officials say they are fighting a “human war” against the “formidable enemy” of HIV\/Aids.<\/strong> Some 23{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62} of South Africa’s troops are infected with HIV – a similar rate to the adult population at large.<\/p>\n

Aids ‘kills one in three’ in SA<\/a><\/h4>\n

Almost one in three deaths in South Africa are caused by Aids making it the leading killer, according to research.<\/strong> In two provinces, the figure is as high as 40{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62}, says an unreleased report by South Africa’s Medical Research Council. HIV\/Aids is the leading cause of death and premature mortality for all provinces,” the document states. In KwaZulu-Natal province, 41.5 {a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62} of deaths are attributable to Aids, followed by Mpumalanga with 40.7 percent, the report says. In Gauteng, South Africa’s economic heartland, Aids accounts for 32.5{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62} of deaths, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big jump in South African HIV cases South Africa’s health department has released figures suggesting that HIV infection rates in the country may be greater than previously thought. South Africa could have the world’s largest number of people living with HIV. HIV infection in South Africa: • Population – 40m • Health Dept – 6m+ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}