With 6.3 million people living with HIV in 2013, South Africa has the highest incidence of HIV/AIDS in the world, according to UNAIDS.
A number of factors such as poverty and poor access to healthcare play a role in these shocking statistics -- but so does misinformation, which both furthers the disease and the stigma that surrounds it, says Zakhele Mavundla of the AIDS Foundation of South Africa.
Here are the six most common misconceptions, or myths…