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This figure
represents the ANC statistics from 1994 – 2000. It is apparent that KwaZulu-Natal is the
worst affected province in South Africa. This has been attributed to a deadly mix of
factors which individually are not uncommon to other provinces, but it is only in KZN that
all factors occur simultaneously. KwaZulu-Natal’s high prevalence rate is a trend
that has been sustained since the first ANC HIV prevalence survey in 1990. In that year,
KwaZulu-Natal had a prevalence twice that of the national level, and since then has
sustained a prevalence rate approximately 10% higher than the national average. Currently,
the national HIV prevalence rate for ANC attendees is 24.5%, a 2% increase from the 1999
survey. This translates into half a million South Africans becoming infected with HIV
between the 1999 and 2000 survey. |