Monday, November 16, 2009

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa is HIV Hotspot



This story is copied in part from the Children's Resiliency Project (SACRP.org) newletter.

CRP runs the Indawo Yethemba Children's Village near Pietermaritzburg and is a supported project of Tumai.org.

The uNgungundlovo district has the highestprevalence (45.7%) of HIV infections among pregnant women countrywide. This means that almost every second pregnant woman in the district is HIV positive. The figures quoted by the MEC are from the 2008 national antenatal HIV prevalence survey released by national Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi. Finance minister Ina Cronje said KZN has consistently recorded the highest prevalence of HIV infected among 15 to 49 year old pregnant women.

The province also has the highest of 2 to 18 year olds who are orphaned. She said this is why there is a concerted drive to bring together not only the government but people from all spheres to tackle AIDS as a united front. She said the province, uNgungundlovu - where Pietermaritzburg is, has no choice as the pandemic is the reversing the progress and development made in KZN. Children are paying the price by not being able to attend school regularly or dropping out. There is no one reason for the high HIV statistics in Umgungundlovu, the KZN Health Department said. Spokesman Chris Maxon said research would need to be conducted to reveal the local factors that drive the epidemic specifically in a district. Maxon added, however, that with anti-retroviral treatment (ART) people are living longer. There are 32,048 people on ART in uMgungundlovu. He said many mothers are resuming their normal lives.

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