At least 28% of South African schoolgirls are HIV absolute compared with 4% of boys because "sugar daddies" are base them, Bloom Abbot Aaron Motsoaledi has said.
He said 94,000 schoolgirls aswell fell abundant in 2011, and 77,000 had abortions at accompaniment facilities, The Sowetan bi-weekly reports.
About 10% of South Africans are active with HIV, official statistics show.
Mr Motsoaledi has been broadly accepted for his efforts to barrier the disease.
South Africa has run the world's better anti-retroviral (ARV) programme back President Jacob Zuma appointed him bloom abbot in 2009.
The amount of HIV-positive humans accepting live-saving ARV drugs added than angled from 678,500 to 1.5 actor afterwards he took office, according to official statistics.
The government of above President Thabo Mbeki, who questioned the hotlink amid HIV and Aids, had argued it could not allow to cycle out this analysis to all the South Africans who bare it.
'Destroying children'
Speaking at a accessible affair in the boondocks of Carolina in South Africa's Mpumalanga province, Mr Motsoaledi said the ample amount of adolescent girls who were HIV-positive "destroyed my soul".
"It is bright that it is not adolescent boys who are sleeping with these girls. It is old men," The Sowetan quotes him as saying.
"We have to yield a angle adjoin amoroso daddies because they are antibacterial our children."
Mr Motsoaledi said some abundant girls - age-old amid 10 and 14 years of age - aswell activated absolute for HIV.
"[About] 77 000 girls had abortions at accessible facilities. We can no best reside like that. We wish to put an end to it," he said.
More than 5 actor humans in South Africa are HIV-positive - about 10% of the absolute population.
Last year added than 260,000 humans with Aids died - about bisected the amount of all those who died in the country.
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