6 April 2004

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Forced sex fuelling HIV epidemic

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The largest representative sample of South African youth ever conducted has found that almost one third of sexually experienced women reported that they did not want to have their first sexual encounter and that they had been coerced into having sex.

Kanya Ndaki
April 6, 2004

SA youth in denial about HIV risk

Health

More than 60 percent of youth who tested HIV positive in the largest survey ever of South Africans aged between 15 and 24 said that they believed that they were at low risk of contracting the virus.

Kanya Ndaki
April 6, 2004

Risky Business ‘ SA Youth and HIV/AIDS

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The largest representative survey of South African youth aged between 15 and 24 shows that by the age of 23, one in five South African youth are HIV positive. The research also confirms findings from the government's 2002 ante-natal clinic survey as well as the HSRC survey of 2002 that HIV prevalence in this age group appears to be stabilizing.

Kanya Ndaki
April 6, 2004

Hope rests with young teens

Health

Although one in 10 South African youths aged between 15 and 24 is HIV positive, 96 percent of 15 year olds are HIV negative.

Kanya Ndaki
April 6, 2004

Young adults more prone to HIV infection

Health

The largest survey ever conducted amongst South African youth shows that young women are bearing the brunt of the HIV and AIDS pandemic with one in 4 women aged between 20 and 24 testing HIV positive, compared to one in 14 men of the same age. The survey, conducted by the University of the Witwatersrand's Reproductive Health Research Unit and commissioned by loveLife, shows that by the age of 23, one in five young South Africans is HIV positive.