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HIV/AIDS

Funding crisis threatens progress in fight against HIV/Aids

11 Jul 2025

Source: Wikimedia/Lschefa, CC BY-SA 4.0. Lesotho’s capital.

HIV/AIDS

Lesotho’s health system has been decimated by US funding cuts

Sechaba Mokhethi 2 Jun 2025

HIV/AIDS

US funding cuts could cause over 150,000 extra HIV infections in SA by 2028

Jesse Copelyn 23 Apr 2025

HIV/AIDS

Vaccines can put an end to HIV – African governments must take the lead in developing them

Glenda Gray and Asa Tapley 2 Jan 2025

Source: Pexels.

Healthcare

HIV: there’s hope for a cure – where we stand now

3 Dec 2024

Source: Roche Diagnostics Group site in South Africa.

Healthcare

Roche champions equitable healthcare across Africa

Katja Hamilton 27 Aug 2024

HIV/AIDS

HIV drug trial shows injection twice-yearly 100% effective against infection

Linda-Gail Bekker 5 Jul 2024

B-Wise Symposium to showcase transformative insights on youth empowerment through digital health

Medtech

B-Wise Symposium to showcase transformative insights on youth empowerment through digital health

Issued by A Better World Network 12 Jun 2024

HIV/AIDS

HIV among older South Africans in rural areas: big study shows there’s a problem that’s being neglected

Jen Manne-Goehler and Francesc Xavier Gomez-Olive Casas 5 Mar 2024

Sappi's #EmpowerHer community programme aims to uplift young women through sport

CSI & Philanthropy

Sappi's #EmpowerHer community programme aims to uplift young women through sport

Issued by Sappi 16 Aug 2023

Source: Supplied. Seithati Molefi, deputy chief-of-party at Right to Care.

Women's Health

Let's talk about sex that is safe and satisfying

Seithati Molefi 16 Aug 2023

HIV/AIDS

#HIVToday: Urgent action needed for high incidence among MSM

Hans Croukamp 20 Jul 2023

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

HIV alarm in Uganda as anti-gay law forces LGBT 'lockdown'

9 Jun 2023

HIV/AIDS

R40m NIH grant keeps HIV prevention as top priority in 2023

10 Mar 2023

HIV/AIDS

Call to World Health Organization to rename HIV

2 Dec 2022

Source: REUTERS. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Healthcare

WHO ranked the most influential UN-recognised body on Twitter

17 Jun 2022

Emergency Medicine

African solutions to African problems: Reframing science innovation

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD 9 Jun 2022

HIV/AIDS

South Africa loses a great champion and a powerful voice in the fight against HIV/Aids

Katja Hamilton 30 Dec 2021

Women empowerment key in fight against HIV and Aids

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Women empowerment key in fight against HIV and Aids

2 Dec 2021

HIV/AIDS

Covid-19 threatens gains made in HIV/Aids fight

Katja Hamilton 1 Dec 2021

The gender impact of South Africa's pandemics

Health & Social Welfare

The gender impact of South Africa's pandemics

Phinah Kodisang 13 Sep 2021

Healthcare worker, Boitsholo Mfolo, inside the digital x-ray truck at one of Africa Health Research Institute’s mobile screening camps in rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Samora Chapman/ Africa Health Research Institute

Noncommunicable diseases

Study shows a huge burden of undiagnosed disease in a rural South African district

Emily B Wong 28 Jun 2021

HIV 40 years on: four action points to end Aids as a health threat

HIV/AIDS

HIV 40 years on: four action points to end Aids as a health threat

Gilles van Cutsem 10 Jun 2021

Fighting HIV and Aids in times of Covid-19

HIV/AIDS

Fighting HIV and Aids in times of Covid-19

31 Dec 2020

Here's where efforts to end HIV in eastern and southern Africa must focus

HIV/AIDS

Here's where efforts to end HIV in eastern and southern Africa must focus

Kaymarlin Govender, Janet Seeley, Mitzy Gafos, Roselyn Kanyemba 24 Dec 2020

About 70% of South Africans with HIV are on antiretroviral treatment.

HIV/AIDS

South Africa has the best HIV policies, report finds

James Stent 3 Dec 2020

#WorldAidsDay: Covid-19 not the only health crisis we have on our hands

Health & Social Welfare

#WorldAidsDay: Covid-19 not the only health crisis we have on our hands

1 Dec 2020

People relying on HIV prevention, care and treatment services have become even more vulnerable because of COVID-19. Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images

HIV/AIDS

Why it's important to keep diagnosing and treating HIV during the Covid-19 pandemic

Kathryn L Hopkins & Glenda Gray 30 Nov 2020

Long-acting cabotegravir injections once every eight weeks was better than the daily tablet used for HIV prevention. Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

Large Africa study makes important breakthrough in HIV prevention

Ina Skosana 17 Nov 2020

Dr Priya Agrawal, managing director, MSD, South Africa & sub-Saharan Africa

HIV/AIDS

MSD signs voluntary licensing agreements for HIV drug

5 Oct 2020

A laboratory technician processes samples for testing Covid-19 at the Rwanda Biomedical Center in Kigali. Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP via Getty

HIV/AIDS

How pooled testing can increase access to essential laboratory tests in Africa

Wolfgang Preiser & Gert van Zyl 4 Sep 2020

A healthcare worker in a protective suit is seen at a quarantine and isolation centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Covid-19

How Covid-19 threatens efforts to contain HIV/Aids in South Africa

Nesri Padayatchi & Kogie Naidoo 21 Jul 2020

South Africans practise social distancing while they queue outside a supermarket in Hillbrow, Johannesburg during the country’s lockdown. Photo by Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

South Africa needs a post-lockdown strategy that emulates South Korea

21 Apr 2020

Preventing TB: a big drug price cut paves the way for global scale-up

Tuberculosis

Preventing TB: a big drug price cut paves the way for global scale-up

Gavin Churchyard 14 Jan 2020

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Trends

6 ways to speed up the UN's health SDGs in Africa

Mathieu Lamiaux 7 Jan 2020

Communities can make - or break - strategies to curb HIV

HIV/AIDS

Communities can make - or break - strategies to curb HIV

2 Dec 2019

Syringe and cooked heroin. TM_SALE/Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

Women using heroin in Kenya: why it's important to intervene early in life

Catherine Mwangi & John Gachohi 18 Oct 2019

Image: World Health Organisation

HIV/AIDS

Malawi races towards global HIV targets

WATIPASO MZUNGU 14 Aug 2019

Women walk past a mural painted to raise awareness on HIV and AIDS in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. EPA/Dai Kurokawa

HIV/AIDS

HIV in Kenya: high risk groups aren't getting the attention they need

Makobu Kimani 19 Jul 2019

Young girls play netball in an open field near King Williams Town. EPA/Kim Ludbrook

HIV/AIDS

Can free schools in South Africa reduce HIV risk?

Franziska Meinck 17 Jul 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

HIV/AIDS

New study shows partial progress in South Africa's HIV response

13 Jun 2019

New HIV infections continue to drive the epidemic. Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

Why ending HIV still rests on a working cure - as well as prevention

Linda-Gail Bekker 29 Mar 2019

Photo: Kim Cloete

HIV/AIDS

Community-wide HIV prevention strategy can reduce new infections

Kim Cloete 5 Mar 2019

10 biggest threats to global health

Public Health

10 biggest threats to global health

15 Jan 2019

PrEP pills. Bowonpat Sakaew/Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

Stop blaming PrEP for the rise in STIs - the picture is more complex than that

Oli Stevens & Charles Witzel 11 Dec 2018

(DUREX)RED donation fights HIV/AIDS through Global Fund

HIV/AIDS

(DUREX)RED donation fights HIV/AIDS through Global Fund

Issued by Durex 29 Nov 2018

The largest number of HIV-exposed but uninfected children are in South Africa. Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

Babies born to mums with HIV face higher risks even though they're HIV negative

Amy Slogrove, Kathleen M Powis & Mary-Ann Davies 29 Nov 2018