The fight against HIV/Aids needs to be intensified, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Friday.
”Reports from the Lancet Medical Journal says South Africa forms 0,7% of the global population, yet carries 17 % of the HIV burden, he said.
”We need to come out with guns blazing fight this scourge.”
Motsoaledi was addressing a conference in Midrand on living with HIV/Aids.
He assured delegates that the government, including President Jacob Zuma, was committed to supporting HIV/Aids campaigns in its continued struggle against the virus.
”A war is still going to be won. We’ll only win when we stand together as government … as civil society. We need to undertake a massive campaign of voluntary counselling and testing,” he said. — Sapa