South Africa has made significant improvements in getting people to test for HIV in recent years and continues to have the world’s largest ART programme – which has undergone further expansion with the implementation of ‘test and treat’ guidelines. Furthermore, South Africa was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to fully approve Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), which is now being made available to people at high risk of infection.
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