recent study conducted by the hiv prevention trials network has revealed that by initiating treatment of hiv positive people it reduces the risk of transmission to their partners by ninety six percent we have roughly one thousand seven hundred new infections per day in south africa which relates to about six hundred and twenty thousand infections per annum we are simply not breaking the stranglehold that the pandemic has on our country if we take the findings of the research and extrapolate it to the annual number of new infections we would be able to reduce this number by a staggering five hundred and ninety five thousand new infections per year