Government this weekend placed the long-awaited National HIV and Syphilis Antenatal Sero-prevalence survey on its website without the usual fanfare and media releases. The survey, which is accepted as one of the best available estimates of HIV infection, reveals that almost 4 800 of the 16 000 women tested at local Government clinics in 2004 were HIV positive. Over 6-million South Africans were estimated to be living with HIV or AIDS.