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MEC of Health Qedani Mahlangu addressing people who attended World Aids Day. Photo by Doreen Mokgolo
MEC of Health Qedani Mahlangu addressing people who attended World Aids Day. Photo by Doreen Mokgolo

POLITICAL leaders attended events across Mzansi yesterday for World Aids Day.

 Speaking in Port Shepstone, KZN deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa warned against destructive behaviour which contributed to the spread of the disease. 

He warned teenagers to stay away from sugar daddies. He promised to launch a programme to educate girls about the dangers of sleeping with older men for money and gifts.

Ramaphosa called on sugar daddies to stop molesting Mzansi’s children. 

“We know HIV doesn’t discriminate in who it affects but it thrives on ignorance, poverty and unequal gender relations,” he said.

“It also thrives on destructive behaviour like the abuse of alcohol and drugs and unsafe sex.”

The Treatment Action Campaign said the number of people dying from Aids had gone down but new infections remained at a crisis level.

The organisation said new infections were at around 1 000 a day.

Around 6,8 million people in South Africa are now living with HIV. And with the current medicine available all these people will require treatment for the rest of their lives,” the organisation said.

They also said a number of provincial healthcare systems were in a state of crisis.

Gauteng MEC for health Qedani Mahlangu was at the Tshwane Events Centre for the day.

She said there was an increase of new infections in young girls.

They are more worried about falling pregnant than contracting the virus,” she said. Socialite Somizi Mhlongo, who attended the event, said he has been affected by the virus.

“I have lost an ex-boyfriend and a colleague to Aids. I fought for their lives but they could not make it,” he said.

Gay activist Brian Molefe said people needed to stop discriminating against those infected with HIV.

In Limpopo premier Stanley Mathabatha told people gathered in Tshikanoshi Village, near Marble Hall that all five of the province’s districts were among the lowest HIV rates in the country.

He also told women to stop using condoms as hair bands.
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