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Statistics… HIV in South Africa
- According to the South African Department of Health Study, approximately 28% of pregnant women were living with HIV in 2007.
- The prevalence rate of HIV in South African teenage girls fell from 16.1% in 2004 to 12.9% in 2007, supposedly due to a change in safer sex practices among younger women.
- According to the South African Department of Health Study in 2007, the provinces that recorded the highest HIV rates amongst antenatal clinical attendees were Kwa-Zulu Natal, Mpumalanga and Free State with 37.4%, 32.0% and 33.5% respectively.
- The Northern Cape and Western Cape recorded the lowest prevalence of HIV with 16.1% and 12.6% respectively in 2007.
- In 2007, the estimated HIV prevalence amongst antenatal clinic attendees was highest amongst the 30-34 year age group, with a prevalence of 40.2%
- In 2008, an estimated 10.9% of all South Africans over the age of two years were living with HIV.
- Among females, HIV prevalence is highest in those between twenty-five and twenty-nine years of age and 30-34 years of age amongst males.
- According to the National HIV Survey of 2008, the prevalence of HIV among children aged two to fourteen was 2.5%, a significant difference since 2002 when the prevalence rate was 5.6%
- In 2008, the African population group had the highest prevalence of HIV with 13.6%. The white population group was estimated at 0.3%, the coloured population group at 1.7% and the Indian population group at 0.3%.
- Between mid 2005 and mid 2006, the Medical Research Council of South Africa (MRC) stated that AIDS killed around 336 000 South Africans.
- UNAIDS/WHO estimates that AIDS claimed 350 000 lives in 2007, approximately 1 000 every day.
- According to ASSA’s 2003 calculations, HIV caused 108 170 deaths in the year 2000 and 147 525 deaths in 2001.
- Among the 15 and 49-year old group, the estimated HIV prevalence was 16.9% in 2008.
- In 2000-2001, 61% of deaths related to HIV had been wrongly attributed to other causes.
- The Western Cape’s prevalence of HIV increased from 1.9% in 2005 to 3.8% in 2008.
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