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Article: HIV/AIDS in South Africa: a review of sexual behavior among adolescents.
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- Adolescence
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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In South Africa, HIV is spread mainly through sexual contact between men and women (Department of Education, 1999). An estimated 7 million South Africans are HIV-positive with the highest prevalence rates among young people, especially teenage girls (Department of Education, 1999, 2001; Coombe, 2002). Findings of a HIV/AIDS survey by the South African Department of Health among pregnant women attending public antenatal clinics show that the prevalence of HIV/ AIDS among pregnant women under the age of 20 years has risen 65.4% from 1997 to 1998 (Department of Education, 1999).
The scale of the AIDS epidemic among youth in South Africa is enormous and HIV/AIDS ...