On Saturday, the US state department issued details of who qualifies for a limited waiver during the Trump administration’s 90-day pause of foreign aid. The freeze has resulted in the temporary close ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explains how the twice-yearly HIV prevention jab, lenacapavir, will be rolled out with or without the US. Sign up for our newsletter today. The Global Fund for HIV, TB ...

In today’s newsletter, our Health Beat team explores ageing with HIV and Mia Malan unpacks SA’s aim to make its own LEN. Sign up for our newsletter today. The South African government is adamant that ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explains how US President Donald Trump ordered USAID-funded HIV organisations in SA to shut down. Sign up for our newsletter today. Pepfar-funded HIV organisations in ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explain why HIV scientists and government are once again pitted against each other. Sign up for our newsletter today. In the leafy office park not far from Charlotte ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan asks who in SA should get LEN first. Sign up for our newsletter today. One in ten clinics in South Africa — across 22 health districts in six provinces — could start ...

During this initiation season, we look back at what happened in 2013 when bungled initiations cost boys their penises. It was day 25 and Xhobiso Pungulwa* (18) slowly pushed himself up in his bed. He ...

WINDING ROAD: A community health worker delivers ARVs to a patient’s home in the Xhora Mouth Administrative Area, Eastern Cape.

In today’s newsletter, Linda Pretorius looks at how gathering data helped shape South Africa’s HIV plans. Sign up today. Numbers put us in the know. We saw that with COVID-19, and now again, with ...

Although taxpayer money now funds the bulk of South Africa’s HIV programme, getting to the point where we have the largest HIV treatment programme in the world, would not have been possible without ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explains why there were empty seats at this year’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (Croi). Sign up for our newsletter today. In Yerba Buena ...