Description The Bushbuckridge region of South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world.
The disease arrived in the early 1990s and spread rapidly.
By 2008 life expectancies had fallen by twelve years for men and fourteen years for women.
Since 2005, public health facilities have increasingly offered free highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) treatment, offering a modicum of hope, but uptake and adherence to the therapy has been sporadic and uneven.