Deputy President, Kgalema Motlanthe says government plans to bring down new HIV infection rates to zero in the next 20 years.
He says the National Strategic Plan for HIV, TB and sexually transmitted infections will aim at eliminating new HIV and TB infections, mother to child HIV infections, and have zero preventable deaths, as well as discrimination associated with the two viruses.
Motlanthe says targets for the next five years will include reducing new HIV infections by half.
He was addressing workers and dignitaries at the Goldfields mine near Carletonville in Gauteng on Saturday to mark World TB day.
