HIV rampant among South African schoolgirls

ALJAZEERA:  As many as 28 percent of South African schoolgirls are HIV positive, because older men are exploiting them, according to the country’s health minister.

Aaron Motsoaledi said on Thursday that four percent of schoolboys have the virus, proving it is “sugar daddies” who are responsible.

“It is clear that it is not young boys who are sleeping with these girls. It is old men,” the Sowetan newspaper quoted Motsoaledi as saying…  (more)