Latest articles on ARVS

Covid-19 sets HIV treatment and testing back

Coronavirus Pontsho Pilane - 4 Sep 2020

Fewer people are getting tested for HIV than last year. People are also battling to access chronic medication. These are some of the lasting effects of the lockdown and the coronavirus pandemic

Bringing home baby when you’re HIV positive and bae is not

Article Nelisiwe Msomi - 6 Dec 2019

Sperm washing, assisted insemination and long hospital waits – if you were lucky. But things are changing for the better

How to get South Africans to buy into the next big thing in medicine

Article Nelisiwe Msomi & Bhekisisa Team - 16 May 2019

These ATMs can decrease the number of patients in clinics but health workers are not helping to achieve that goal.

On the road: Go inside the farm clinics making sure workers are never far from care

Videos Staff Reporter - 13 Dec 2018

They're not only good for workers' health, they're good for business too.

Turn to digital to increase communication with young people about HIV

Article Staff Reporter - 30 Nov 2018

Radio, print and TV are great tools, but digital platforms provide information and enables conversations between peers and with experts

Successful HIV treatment create health problems by contaminating water with ARVs

Article Dr Eunice Ubomba Jaswa - 30 Nov 2018

Traces of the drugs are found in urine and faeces, but water treatment plants are not designed to remove them

Mark Heywood: ‘I was pitched against the very government I had fought for’

Podcasts Mia Malan - 15 Jul 2017

Activists litigated to force government to give HIV-positive people antiretrovirals. Mia Malan talks to Mark Heywood about the political consequences

#AIDS2016: ‘Never again must the political meddling of a few derail progress’

Article Mia Malan - 15 Jul 2016

The International Aids Conference returns after 16 years to a very different South Africa, but the battle against HIV is not yet over.

New state-run pharmaceutical company to produce ARVs by 2019

Article Staff Reporter - 17 Feb 2016

South Africa will soon get its own facility to make tablets to treat HIV and other ailments.

Meet the Khayelitsha compliers club

Article Bhekisisa Team - 25 Jun 2015

Communities are bringing HIV monitoring and dispensing out of the clinics and into their homes.

Trials don’t gel with all women

Article Staff Reporter - 19 Mar 2015

Researchers recognise the need to change HIV prevention technologies to suit different lifestyles.

Mother mentors a boost for health

Article Staff Reporter - 19 Mar 2015

HIV-positive pregnant women get sound advice from mothers who can empathise.

Funding crunch threatens TAC

Article Staff Reporter - 6 Nov 2014

Aids is not over, says Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, but donors are pulling out of South Africa because it is a middle-income country.

Ignoring prenatal HIV care leads to a lifelong burden

Article Staff Reporter - 21 Aug 2014

Mothers blame themselves and their children can never give up their antiretrovirals.

‘Health’ and ‘care’ play second fiddle to Free State bullying

Article Bhekisisa Team - 8 May 2014

The Free State health department has come under fire for a number of reasons. Bhekisisa visited the province ahead of elections to find out more.

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SA justice delays extradition of paedophile to UK

Sarah Smit - 27 Oct 2020

Efforts to bring Lee Nigel Tucker to justice have spanned 16 years and his alleged victims have waited for 30 years

Coronavirus

Johannesburg cannot police its future

Matthew Wilhelm solomon - 27 Oct 2020

South Africa’s biggest city is ground zero for debates about the long-term effectiveness and constitutionality of militarised urban policing and how we imagine the post-Covid city

Coronavirus

Ithala backs its embattled chairperson

Paddy Harper - 25 Oct 2020

Roshan Morar is being investigated in connection with KwaZulu-Natal education department backpack sanitiser tender worth R4-million and a batch of face masks that vanished

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Special Reports

Itec serves up high-tech integrated surveillance system for family food company

special reports - 27 Oct 2020

The system includes facial recognition software and a thermal screening solution that will provide instant temperature screening of all employees

Special Reports

Transport Month

[email protected] - 23 Oct 2020

An infrastructure-led recovery will help to stimulate demand in the South African economy, which is vital post the Covid-19 pandemic

Special Reports

Limpopo’s Economic Recovery Plan to fight Covid-19 impact

special reports - 23 Oct 2020

Billions have been set aside to help farmers and industries get back on their feet as part of the Limpopo Socio-Economic Recovery Plan

Special Reports

Disrupt the corrupt

special reports - 22 Oct 2020

Whistle-blowers should be seen as real heroes in the fight against corruption and we need a change in culture for this to happen

Special Reports

Corporates: A force for good for a sustainable future

special reports - 20 Oct 2020

In order to see people and nature thrive what is required is a strong focus on partnerships – we cannot act alone anymore

Special Reports

Combatting wildlife crime in Southern Africa activity annual programme statement (APS) No. 04

special reports - 20 Oct 2020

Concept papers are sought for implementating activities, for a multi-faceted programme that aims to reduce poaching and illegal trade in wildlife

Special Reports

The financial decisions made during your life journey, and their impact on your retirement outcome

special reports - 19 Oct 2020

The longer you save towards retirement the larger your retirement savings are expected to be due to the effect of compounding interest

Special Reports

In conversation with SA Reserve Bank Governer, Lesetja Kganyago

special reports - 16 Oct 2020

'Make interest rates zero and inflation goes up and then people save less – we need savings to fund investment in this country'