Government has welcomed the findings of a UN report on HIV and Aids in South Africa.
According to the report, new infections have fallen by 35% and Aids-related deaths by 41 percent.
It says the global response to HIV has averted 30 million new HIV infections and nearly 8 million AIDS-related deaths since 2000, when the Millennium Development Goals were set.
President Jacob Zuma said the findings demonstrated that South Africa's aggressive HIV/AIDS treatment campaign, the biggest in the world, had yielded remarkable results in preventing AIDS-related deaths.
However, Zuma cautioned against complacency in the fight against HIV and Aids, saying that the fight against the stigma, as well as support for all those infected and affected by it, should continue.
The UN report, released earlier this week, said that the world was on track to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
