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HIV/AIDS in SA | Mpumalanga records SA’s highest prevalence rate

JOHANNESBURG - Mpumalanga has the highest HIV prevalence in South Africa.

It's surpassed KwaZulu-Natal, which for some time used to be the most worrying province for authorities.

Roughly 890,000 people were living with HIV in the province in 2022.

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These stats emerged from a Human Sciences Research Council study, released on Monday.

It shows that 7.8 percent of Mpumalanga youth aged between 15 and 24 live with the virus.

It was one-and-a-half times more prevalent among males than females in this age group.

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