Everyone is HIV-positive until they are proven otherwise. Dr Sindi van Zyl, of the Anova Health Institute in Johannesburg, which specialises in HIV treatment and prevention, doesn't mince her words. Neither can South Africans, she says, 18% of whom (adults, that is) are HIV-positive.
She was speaking at Rhodes University's School of Journalism and Media Studies at the invitation of the Discovery Centre for Health Journalism and the topic of her lecture was "HIV: Facts versus Fiction. Answers to HIV myths you have been wondering about". Van Zyl said her outlook was that everyone was HIV-positive until it was proved otherwise.
The biggest obstacles to combating HIV/Aids, she said, were perceptions about whom the disease affected.
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