Gauteng's chilly weather could not deter hundreds of South Africans from taking part in the country's HIV, Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign launch at Natalspruit Hospital in Ekurhuleni on Sunday.

The campaign forms part of government's new and upscaled HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment plan, which was announced by President Jacob Zuma last December on World Aids Day.

Zuma has said that every South African should know their HIV status, and he took his own HIV test on April 8th to promote the testing campaign.

The objectives of the new, upscaled plan are to reduce the rate of infection by 50 percent by 2011 and to provide ARV treatment to 80 percent of those who are HIV positive.

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