Fighting for funds: A new era of HIV activism

You might think of snakebite as a niche issue rather than a devastating one. But it is thought to kill somewhere between 80,000 and 140,000 people a year.

Adolescent girls and young women are blamed and shamed for falling pregnant, which affects how they are treated, the support they get, and the health services they reive

The termination of research finance puts pressure on South Africa’s response to tuberculosis and could slow down the capacity to develop new tests, one expert said

Residents living beside an old mine dump face health problems as floods and heatwaves worsen the dangers of mining pollution

Cancellation letters, which end millions of rands of South African universities’ US-government funded HIV and TB research grants with immediate effect, started to roll in over the weekend

This is despite vacancy rates of 5% to 22% in government clinics and hospitals

In December, the Global Fund and the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief committed to funding the roll-out of lenacapavir in countries they support

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

The city’s car-free day is going into its ninth year, far outlasting most initiatives like it around the world, including in South Africa

Until recently, the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief funded nonprofits in South Africa to help provincial health departments test people for HIV and put them on treatment

About 60 000 South Africans die in a year from diseases that are not caused by tuberculosis or HIV before they turn 70, and about a fifth of these are from diabetes

In sub-Saharan Africa, patients face a ‘wild west’ where treatments for snake bites cost the Earth or don’t work