HIV prevalence beginning to fall in South African children; TB continues to be an important co-infection

HIV prevalence fell sharply among children admitted to one of South Africa’s largest hospitals in 2009 and 2010, but remained high at 19.3%, researchers from Chris Hani Baragwanath (CHB) hospital in Soweto report in the advance online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.