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Amref South Africa
- Nairobi
- KENYA
- +254 20 6993000
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Who are we?
- Our work in South Africa Though one of Africa’s strongest economies, the HIV epidemic has taken a severe toll on South Africa’s workforce. It has also left 1.2 million children orphaned and shows no signs of abating. South Africa has the second highest HIV rate in the world, with an estimated 5.5 million people HIV-positive. In KwaZulu Natal, the infection rate is a high as 39.1%. Hospitals are now struggling to cope with the number of HIV-related patients. A recent study estimates that HIV-positive patients will soon account for 60-70% of medical expenditure in South African hospitals. South Africa is also the fifth-worst TB-affected country in the world. This crisis is worsening as some strains of TB are now resistant to standard treatments. The outbreak of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal detected in early September 2006 underscored the lethal combination of HIV and TB in South Africa, where as many as 60% of adult TB patients overall are also infected wit
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