HIV
Trump’s sudden suspension of foreign aid puts millions of lives in Africa at risk
Imprecise executive order leaves health providers dependent on PEPFAR funding unsure if or when money will arrive
By Liezl Human
News | 23 January 2025
Alarming rise in HIV among drug users as government fails to implement policy
Needle programs are officially supported, but the state often obstructs them
Feature | 21 October 2024
Vhutshilo Mountain School offers lifeline to AIDS orphans
Limpopo school has been going strong for nearly 20 years
By Thembi Siaga
News | 10 October 2024
How we know a new medicine is so effective at preventing HIV transmission
There was not a single HIV transmission in a clinical trial in which women volunteers used the twice-yearly injectable drug lenacapavir
Science | 1 August 2024
South Africans are living longer, mostly thanks to HIV treatment
Antiretroviral medicines have been a success, but more work is needed to reach United Nations targets
By Daniel Steyn and Nathan Geffen
Science | 1 December 2023
Court ruling means that pharmacists can prescribe to people with HIV
Specially trained pharmacists will be allowed to manage and prescribe medicine to patients with HIV and/or tuberculosis
Law | 15 August 2023
The maths that helped South Africa tackle HIV
UCT epidemiologist Leigh Johnson delivered GroundUp and Bertha House’s third Science for the People seminar
By Daniel Steyn
Science | 29 March 2023
Nontsikelelo Zwedala: an unsung hero of the struggle for HIV medicines
She was one of the complainants in a Competition Commission case that resulted in antiretroviral medicines becoming affordable
Obituary | 20 March 2023
Injections against HIV could be manufactured locally and cheaply, says Aspen Pharmacare
Cabotegravir is still unaffordable after two years
By Daniel Steyn
News | 1 December 2022