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Pretoria – HIV prevalence among people in South Africa reached 13.1%, according to figures released Monday by South African Statistician Risenga Maluleke
"It is estimated that people living with HIV In 2018 With the proliferation and availability of antiretrovirals, there are more people [with HIV] who are living, so it's not a matter of numbers that only increase, "said Maluleke in Pretoria
"Of course, we still have new infections, but the fact is, people are living much longer with ARVs." Over time, HIV prevalence among adults aged 15-49 is increasing while decreasing among young people at 24 [years]. "
The number of AIDS-related deaths declined steadily, from 276,921 in 2007 to 115,167 in 2018.
The total number of people living with HIV in South Africa however increased by one in 2018, around one-fifth of women in South Africa of childbearing age [15 to 49] are HIV-positive, according to StatsSA.
Earlier, Maluleke revealed that the population of South Africa We are talking about mid-year population estimates that use the latest data on fertility, mortality and migration to estimate the population size of the Republic of South Africa. Now, mid-year estimates for 2018, we're sitting at 57.73 million people living in South Africa, "said Maluleke.
" In 2017, we were sitting at 56.8 million. We had 1.2 million births, a net migration of 0.2, and we had about half a million deaths. "
About 51 percent [about 29.5 million] of the South African population are women.
About 29.5 percent of the population over 15 years of age, and about 8.5 [percent ( or 4.89 million] of the population 60 years or older
African News Agency (ANA)
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