1. IS HIV AND AIDS STILL A CHALLANGE? WHAT SHOULD BE OUR ROLE NOW?
NASDEV WINTER SCHOOL 18 – 21 JUNE 2015 Tshwane University of Technology.
IS HIV AND AIDS STILL A CHALLANGE?
WHAT SHOULD BE OUR ROLE NOW?
Aubrey Moshia
Mcdonald Mochaki

2. What is the prevalence of HIV in South Africa?
Sub-Saharan Africa is the region worst-affected by HIV and AIDS.  HIV/AIDS in South Africa is a prominent health concern; South Africa has the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS compared to any other country in the world with 5,6 million people living with HIV, and 270,000 HIV related deaths recorded in 2011.  (UNAIDS)

3. Is HIV still a challenge? YES!
Focus Areas
Intergenerational Sex
Transactional Sex
Sexual Liberation
AIDS Fatigue

4. Why is the South African HIV/AIDS prevalence so high?
Factors that contribute to the spread of HIV. These include:
poverty;
The low status of women;
Sexual violence;
Globalization
History of poor leadership in the response to the epidemic.

5. INTERGENERATIONAL SEX
There is direct evidence that intergenerational relationships place young women at high risk for HIV infection. For example, one study in Uganda demonstrated that HIV risk doubled for women who were 15 to 19 years old when they had a partner 10 years or older compared to those who had partners who were 0 to 4 years older.

6. Transactional Sex
Certain socio-economic factors e.g. globalization and food shortage have heightened the economic conditions that lead to poverty, and sex in exchange for economic or material support is one way for young people to survive.

7. Sexual Liberation
The current youth as opposed to that of the latter years is exposed to a diverse sexual life and as a result of social media and the entertainment industry has also put sexual consciousness in the forefront. E.g. Social media has made accessibility of pornographic material easy which sensationalize sex.

8. AIDS Fatigue
Overwhelming information regarding HIV and AIDS which is repeated over so many media outlets such that the audience is clattered with so munch information that it becomes so monotonous.

9. What should be our role now?
Promising practices have included a combination of micro-economic approaches linked with interpersonal and community activities that challenge socio-cultural norms that allow for age-disparate sex, and that empower girls and women to make healthier sexual decisions. Leaders in the field also call for greater involvement of men in HIV and AIDS prevention programs that challenge social and gender norms.

10. Let us support: ZAZI Brothers for Life Peer Education Program
MSM/LGBTI program

11. We Thank you