While South Africa's HIV prevalence rate remains stable at 11 percent, there have been significant reductions in HIV among children and young people.
But the overall HIV infection rate among people aged 15 to 49 has inched up in the last six years, with almost 17 percent of people in this group now infected (from 15.6 percent in 2002).
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