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HIV/AIDS Is a Black Person’s Disease Only

All race groups in South Africa are susceptible to HIV/AIDS. According to the respected South African National HIV Prevalence Incidence Behaviour and Communication Survey, 2008 – A Turning Tide Among Teenagers HIV prevelance in South Africa was 10.6%. That said, statistically many more Africans are infected than other races. Infections across racial categories were broken down as follows:

  • Total: 10.6%
  • African 13.3%
  • White 0.6%
  • Coloured 1.9%
  • Indian 1.6%

The same study notes that infection rates are highest in South Africa’s poorest communities, in informal rural and urban settlements, where statistically more African people live than whites, coloureds or Indians. It can therefore also be argued that HIV/AIDS generally impacts more heavily on the poor than the rich.

Source: South African National HIV Prevalence Incidence Behaviour and Communication Survey, 2008 – A Turning Tide Among Teenagers