The proportion of people 50+ with HIV has doubled in 10 years

Many people told Sarah Stein that practising medicine would be difficult. Now, as a fifth year medical student at the University of Cape Town, she wishes she would have listened more carefully

If all of its National Institutes of Health funding falls away, the country could lose 70% of its medical research capacity

The Anova Health Institute, which received the lion’s share of the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids funding in South Africa, had its support halted in February along with dozens other nonprofits

Instead of the Aids denialism of decades past, it’s US funding cuts that could lead to up to 300 000 more HIV infections in the next four years. Activists like Sisonke Msimang say the past has answers for the present fight

Scientists warn of a health disaster as high numbers of schoolchildren and university students turn to vaping, despite the dangers

A modelling study released in March gives a clue at which price the jab, lenacapavir, would be worth the health department’s while

The study found 20% of women who took a drug intervention that included antibodies remained virally suppressed without antiretroviral therapy after 18 months.

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