STOP HIV

The STOP HIV-Stick To One Partner campaign is a simple and practical campaign that speaks to all sexually active individuals to stick to one partner.

STOP HIV-Stick To One Partner comes from the fact that particularly in South Africa; our epidemic is driven by multiple concurrency partners where it is the norm to have more than one sexual relation at the same time. We still have a growing epidemic and it’s evident we see households disappearing, we see young people dying.

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UNAIDS statistics (as of July 2008), based on the reporting of 147 out of 192 UN member states, show that:

• Two million people died from AIDS in 2007 (5,500 people per day), and 72 percent of these deaths were in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Over 33 million people are living with HIV/AIDS, and 67 percent of these infected people live in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Fifty percent of adults living with HIV/AIDS are women.

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Introduction

In spite of strides that have been made to combat it, HIV still poses a great threat to the South African nation as well as the rest of the sub Saharan region. Currently the highest prevalence rates of HIV and AIDS are within the 25 – 49 year age group predominantly caused by multiple concurrent partners.

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Chinese and American scientists have jointly discovered a way to prevent the HIV virus spreading through the body.

Experts from the University of Science and Technology of China say that their most important finding is a small-molecule compound.

The compound can occupy a gap in a human cell ordinarily attacked by the HIV virus, experts were quoted by China Youth Daily yesterday as saying.

Usually the HIV virus enters a cell through this gap and begins duplicating itself immediately.

The result is that cells die and the immune system breaks down.

This finding provides a new method for further clinical research of HIV/AIDS, said the experts.

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