At least 28% of South African schoolgirls are HIV positive compared with 4% of boys because "sugar daddies" are exploiting them, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has said.
He said 94,000 schoolgirls also fell pregnant in 2011, and 77,000 had abortions at state facilities, The Sowetan newspaper reports.
About 10% of South Africans are living with HIV, official statistics show.
Mr Motsoaledi has been widely praised for his efforts to curb the disease.
South Africa has run the world's largest anti-retroviral (ARV) programme since President Jacob Zuma appointed him health minister in 2009.
The number of HIV-positive people receiving life-saving ARV drugs more than doubled from 678,500 to 1.5 million after he took office, according to official statistics.
The government of former President Thabo Mbeki, who questioned the link between HIV and Aids, had argued it could not afford to roll out this treatment to all the South Africans who needed it.
'Destroying children'
Speaking at a public meeting in the town of Carolina in South Africa's Mpumalanga province, Mr Motsoaledi said the large number of young girls who were HIV-positive "destroyed my soul".
"We must take a stand against sugar daddies because they are destroying our children."
Mr Motsoaledi said some pregnant girls - aged between 10 and 14 years of age - also tested positive for HIV.
"[About] 77 000 girls had abortions at public facilities. We can no longer live like that. We want to put an end to it," he said.
More than five million people in South Africa are HIV-positive - about 10% of the total population.
Last year more than 260,000 people with Aids died - almost half the figure of all those who died in the country. "It is clear that it is not young boys who are sleeping with these girls. It is old men,
Posted: at 14-03-2013 03:55 PM (12 years ago) | Hero
PidginMOUTH at 14-03-2013 03:55 PM (12 years ago) (m)
Sophyrocks at 14-03-2013 04:53 PM (12 years ago) (f)
Its a pity. Old men dat wont sit dwn at home n mind deir wives. Na dem dey giv dese girls HIV so. Luring dese girls in2 prostitution. And dey wil stil infect deir wives. Useless men.
Life is damn too short to be sitting around miserable.
Posted: at 14-03-2013 04:53 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Its a pity. Old men dat wont sit dwn at home n mind deir wives. Na dem dey giv dese girls HIV so. Luring dese girls in2 prostitution. And dey wil stil infect deir wives. Useless men.
Are girls that stupid?
I'm the latest currency, banks are scared of losing me....Ezchusa i'm Kingest
Posted: at 14-03-2013 04:58 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Keffejude at 14-03-2013 05:00 PM (12 years ago) (m)
Quote from: Sophyrocks on 14-03-2013 04:53 PM
Its a pity. Old men dat wont sit dwn at home n mind deir wives. Na dem dey giv dese girls HIV so. Luring dese girls in2 prostitution. And dey wil stil infect deir wives. Useless men.
...speaking from experience i guess. HIV is d punishment 4 promiscuity, the gals never ate HIV 4rm a plate of food or got it 4rm a public toilet so OYO! some peeps will say not all HIV victims got it tru segxwal intercourse blah! we all know that majority got it tru promiscuity
Posted: at 14-03-2013 05:00 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Sophyrocks at 14-03-2013 05:38 PM (12 years ago) (f)
Quote from: Keffejude on 14-03-2013 05:00 PM
...speaking from experience i guess. HIV is d punishment 4 promiscuity, the gals never ate HIV 4rm a plate of food or got it 4rm a public toilet so OYO! some peeps will say not all HIV victims got it tru segxwal intercourse blah! we all know that majority got it tru promiscuity
which experience anu ofia? Wil it eva happen if men sit dwn n mind deir wives?
Life is damn too short to be sitting around miserable.
Posted: at 14-03-2013 05:38 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Sophyrocks at 14-03-2013 05:52 PM (12 years ago) (f)
Den i wonder d percentage 4 d whole populatn cos dis country has d highest. Ive read several posts by south africans n i was shocked by d no of pple who r HIV Positive n a lot of deir ladies had chikdren 4 men out of wedlock. AIDS is real o! Una wey no knw anytin dan to waka abt, be careful. I read anoda story n was rily convinced dat a lot of HIV Positive pple r on a revenge mission to spread d disease.
Life is damn too short to be sitting around miserable.
Posted: at 14-03-2013 05:52 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Sophyrocks at 14-03-2013 05:53 PM (12 years ago) (f)
Den i wonder d percentage 4 d whole populatn cos dis country has d highest. Ive read several posts by south africans n i was shocked by d no of pple who r HIV Positive n a lot of deir ladies had chidren 4 men out of wedlock. AIDS is real o! Una wey no knw anytin dan to waka abt, be careful. I read anoda story n was rily convinced dat a lot of HIV Positive pple r on a revenge mission to spread d disease.
Life is damn too short to be sitting around miserable.
Posted: at 14-03-2013 05:53 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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