Who should get what slice of the pie once the medicine is available in public clinics? And are numbers alone what would drive decisions?
None of the companies that will be involved have a licence from the inventor of Lenacapavir, Gilead Sciences, to make the jab
From discontinued insulin pens to overpriced TB drugs, meet the young South African holding drug makers to account on behalf of patients
The country’s medicines regulator Sahpra says it’s on track to announce its registration decision by the end of October
The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/Aids says the crisis is not an isolated supply-chain issue but a ‘systemic failure’ that demands urgent government intervention
According to a survey, 85% of managers reported that their clinics faced staffing shortages, though only one in five blamed these on the US President’s Emergency Plan For Aids Relief cuts
The shot, called Lenacapavir, has a 100% success rate in preventing young women from getting HIV through sex
Hetero and Dr Reddy’s will be funded by the Gates Foundation and Unitaid to produce and sell the twice-a-year anti-HIV shot around R692 per person a year
HIV prevention services have been heavily affected by the pause on the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids in the country, with remote mobile clinics that served hard-to-reach people now closed
The health department hopes to make the twice-a-year anti-HIV injection lenacapavir available soon and to be buying generics by 2027
Ndiviwe Mphothulo, a medical doctor and president of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, is trying to make sure the Trump administration’s funding cuts don’t collapse South Africa’s HIV programmes
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
The $400 million the United States congress removed from a list of funding programmes the Trump administration wants to cut doesn’t cancel the cuts to HIV and TB programmes made in February
The least the Trump administration could have done was provide ample warning that it was going to cut aid
The country isn’t getting extra money from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria; it has to use cash from a grant it has already been awarded and was cut by 16% in June
Francois Venter talks about his unorthodox inaugural lecture, his work during the Aids crisis and his shoot-from-the-hip fix of our healthcare system
Although the NHI offers much-needed reform, it must find a new way to care for patients – an approach that treats people emotionally, physically, socially, psychologically and spiritually
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
With the 12 specialised key population clinics in South Africa funded by the US government, and now shuttered, getting treatment at government clinics has been difficult, if not impossible
An inter-referral system between conventional and complementary medical practitioners is essential to giving patients optimal care in our diverse society
Aid dependency in the fight against HIV/Aids is not sustainable; Africa must own its health future. With political will, nothing is impossible
A modelling study released in March gives a clue at which price the jab, lenacapavir, would be worth the health department’s while
Donald Trump’s funding freeze underlines that South Africa needs to prioritise the development of its pharmaceutical manufacturing sector
The United States’ shutdown of HIV/Aids funding may harm global Aids programmes irreparably, jeopardising millions of lives and putting HIV prevention at risk
The recent termination of USAid to HIV/Aids and TB organisations in South Africa was a bone of contention in the 2025 budget
In a changing world order, the continent must make urgent moves to wean itself off handouts
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 US president’s cutting of financial support has cut life-saving treatment for many in SA
A federal judge has enforced a temporary restraining order blocking Donald Trump from freezing federal grants
Such programmes still qualify for a limited waiver, which will expire towards the end of April, but only for approved activities
The US has said who qualifies for a waiver during the Trump administration’s pause in foreign aid but it doesn’t allow for anti-HIV pills, unless for pregnant women
We need to tackle the inequality in society to overcome HIV-Aids — let’s take the rights path