SACMEQ reviewed whether or not South African learners stigmatize their HIV infected peers. It found that:

• Across all nine provinces, there are more learners who do not their HIV-infected peers than those who do.
• The percentage of learners who do stigmatize their peers is 8.9%, with a higher number of them in Limpopo (31%).
• Almost 60% of learners would not discriminate against their HIV-infected peers.
• 31% of learners did not know if they would discriminate against their peers or not.

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