SOUTH AFRICA has one of the highest rates of HIV prevalence in the world, with 5.2m people, or 10.9% of the population, estimated to be living with the virus in 2008. But new data from the Human Sciences Research Council suggest that the epidemic may be levelling off. Among the young matters seem to be improving. Although the prevalence rate among adults has increased slightly, new infections among people aged 15 to 20 have decreased since 2002. Encouragingly, too, the proportion of the population who reported using a condom at their most recent sexual encounter has jumped dramatically, most notably among young people. This may indicate that women are getting more say about sex than they had before, and it may perhaps also show that there is a growing understanding that condoms are a useful prevent...
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