World AIDS Day | 2023 theme: Let communities lead

JOHANNESBURG - 1 December is World Aids Day. Over seven million people continue to live with HIV and AIDS in South Africa.

WATCH: 7.8 million people living with HIV in South Africa

It’s a disease you can manage and treat like any other chronic condition but that depends on knowing your status and it’s getting easier and easier to do just that.

In fact, you even use self-test kits these days as eNCA anchor Sally Burdett demonstrated with Charlotte Mangalana from LEchoba Medical Technoligies.

They are the SA Distributor of Biolytical HIV Rapid Tests.