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WORLDVIEW: AIDs time bomb – blind eye to “cultural” sex habits, infections soar
In the 1990s, futurists warned that HIV was SA’s ticking time bomb. While antiretrovirals have slashed the death rate, with infections still mushrooming there is a growing burden on an increasingly beleaguered Treasury.
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My Biznews colleague Chris Bateman hits the sweet spot here with his unique and myth-busting insights into SA's HIV/Aids infections – taxpayer resources address the symptom, but the cause is ignored because it is too hot a political hot potato. Chris opens our eyes through sharing his vantage point of having been raised in deep rural KZN.
Chris Bateman writes: "The graph of South Africans living with HIV is flattening out at eight million, with tens of thousands now surviving due to antiretroviral drugs.
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