Published 30 November 2022
The first cases of HIV were diagnosed in 1981 — 41 years later the HIV epidemic continues to haunt South African communities. Despite having the world’s largest number of people living with HIV and the world’s largest number of people on life-saving antiretrovirals (ARVs), South Africa still has a long way to go to end the epidemic. Of concern as well is that the response to the Covifd-19 pandemic limited access to essential services during the lockdowns and has also reduced the public’s focus on the twin HIV and TB epidemics in the country, which is aggravated by emerging pandemic of cardio-metabolic diseases. With HIV/TB co-infection rates of more than 50% we must treat these diseases as two sides of the same coin.
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