Waiting
At least 85% (almost 900 000) of South Africans who needed antiretroviral drugs were not yet receiving them by mid-2005…. Read More
Fact-a-day archive
Often orphan
South Africa has an estimated 1.2 million Aids orphans (Kaiser Family Foundation Fact Sheet, August 2006) This week’s theme: Every… Read More
Cause of death
In 2005, an estimated 320,000 South Africans died of HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death in almost all… Read More
It’s global. It’s concentrated
An estimated 39.5 million people are living with HIV worldwide. There were 4.3 million new infections in 2006 with 2.8… Read More
And here’s the big problem
South Africa’s life expectancy at birth in the period 1970-1975 was 53.7 years. In the period 2000-2005 it was 49… Read More
Our peers? (2)
South Africa has a Gini coefficient of 57.8, which measures the income inequality of its citizens. A value of 0… Read More