The HIV prevention shot, lenacapavir, will be rolled out at South African clinics within the next couple of months and from 2027, the health department will also buy generics. But how best to spend the HIV prevention budget so that the country can drive infections down as fast as possible? We take a look at what the modelling data shows
Who should get what slice of the pie once the medicine is available in public clinics? And are numbers alone what would drive decisions?
Over the past 10 years, researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand’s vaccines and infectious diseases analytics unit analysed small tissue samples of 1 586 children under five who died at public health facilities in Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg. With the people in the area living in from informal settlements to structured houses, the cases […]
Claims of poor standards at South Africa’s government health facilities are often bandied about — and get hackles raised when the National Health Insurance is mentioned, to boot
The health department has R622 million extra to prop up South Africa’s HIV treatment programme in the wake of foreign aid cuts, but it’s only about a fifth of the total gap
Last month, the health minister said more than half a million previously diagnosed people with HIV have been started on treatment since the end of February
Today, people over 50 make up the second largest group of South Africa’s HIV-positive population — 20 years ago, they were the smallest proportion
If all of its National Institutes of Health funding falls away, the country could lose 70% of its medical research capacity
The NHI Act says funding healthcare for all should come from tax but economic growth is in a vice and many people are without jobs
Bhekisisa had a team of four reporters at the climate conference. On average, our journalists walked eight to nine kilometres a day