There are enough condoms to make balloon animals.

Hospitals never seem to have a shortage of free condoms. In fact free condoms sit quietly in the huts of the Nongoma Lodge and in the dispensers at the hospital outside the outpatient department. Simple condoms run abundant with the sugar canes of South Africa, but the men of South Africa are not fond of condoms like they are of the sugar cane. In this male-dominated society, most women would not dare to tell a man to put on a rubber. Moreover, it is an acceptable (or at least tolerated) practice for husbands to have other sexual partners when they leave their rural towns to seek for work in the big city like Joburg. This phenomenon may have led the seeding of HIV/AIDS into the rural area when the husbands return home.

Also woman tend to shy away from condoms because of the emphasis to have a baby in their late teens or early twenties and to perhaps find themselves a husband. However for a man to marry a woman, he must have wealth and enough to offer the woman’s family substantial gifts. Since many live in poverty, men are unable to wed their girlfriends leading to unstable family environments.

South Africa preaches the ABCs of HIV/AIDS prevention.

Abstinence
Be Faithful
Condoms

I tend to believe abstinence is ideal goal, but unattainable goal for most teenagers (any human) with decent amount of hormones. But at least the government is educating the public and providing viable choices to the people.