A new study suggests that changes in policies have led to decreased breastfeeding
A new HIV prevention medicine could work even better than daily pills but if nothing changes it costs more than R300 000 to treat one person for a year
Lobbyists pushing for vaping as a way to help people quit smoking insist taxing e-cigarettes like traditional smokes will lead down a similar path as denying HIV treatment to state patients
Covid-19 has had a negative impact on blood donations; blood conservation has become a priority
Setting new 90-90-90 targets for CD4 testing, cryptococcal antigen, and TB testing, and treatment, aligned to the WHO AHD package of care would be a positive step towards ending Aids deaths by 2030
Wealthy countries were quick to ban Southern African nations from entering their borders when the Omicron variant was identified, but did not do so to each other.
The HIV pandemic isn’t going anywhere until a cure is found. In the meantime, HIV clinicians say South Africa should protect its victories
Learners writing their final exams are motivated by the delicious fare served at an oasis in Delft, Cape Town
The Fix The Patent Laws Campaign wants Trade Minister Ebrahim Patel to publish amendments to the Patent Act to make all medication affordable
Imraan Coovadia’s new book examines how poison has shaped political affairs in Southern Africa
The availability of blood is crucial for the treatment of acute and chronic diseases and in emergencies such as during child birth
Organ recipients are at greater risk of death from Covid-19, while waiting lists for transplants grow
The Russian-produced vaccine might increase the risk of vaccinated males getting HIV, says South Africa’s health products regulatory authority
President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed the investment, noting that it ‘is a leapfrog to cutting edge technology’
We ask the infectious diseases specialist 18 questions about the Covid-19 pandemic: from how to counter vaccine hesitancy to whether life will ever return to ‘normal’
Safety, side-effects and the jargon-filled scientific information explained for those who have concerns about getting vaccinated
Inequity in Covid vaccine access echoes mistakes from the HIV response. In the forty years since Aids was first identified, there have also been several lessons on how to contain a pandemic. Starting with equity and supporting health systems
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that South Africa could count on him to fix the inequalities associated with combating the virus
The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that vaccine development and testing timelines can be shrunk from decades to months, but not without shortcomings
COMMENT: The AU has laid out a clear path for the continent to produce its own vaccines
South Africa lost one of its most prominent HIV doctors this weekend to Covid-related complications. Dr Sindi will be remembered for her ability to make HIV and reproductive health knowledge accessible to her hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers.
Feminist activist groups still demand justice for human-right violations against women living with HIV
Pandemic disrupts the supply of external condoms — and inner ones are unknown and in short supply
People living with HIV in Sierra Leone who use drugs are facing grim challenges during the pandemic
A leading Kenyan public health and community-based health care specialist knows the importance of local level involvement, particularly for epidemics and pandemics
Government and civil society must develop a rights-based response to Covid-19, because epidemics are won by strengthening rights, not trampling on them
After missing the global HIV/Aids targets, new benchmarks that put people at the centre, especially those most at risk, need to be set
Punitive measures simply drive drug use underground. A more effective way is to adopt harm reduction interventions
New research from seven countries in Africa signals the future of HIV prevention — but what can it learn from its past?
Dr Thembisile Xulu, the newly appointed chief executive of the Sanac Trust, tells Nicolene de Wee about a new plan to fight HIV, TB and STIs — and her hip-hop dance moves
Laws on access to sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents and age of consent to sexual activity in many countries do not adequately serve the needs of young people and even when they are progressive, they are often not well implemented
While the restriction of movement curtailed the health services for people who use drugs in some parts of the world, it propelled other countries into finding innovative ways to continue services, a new report reveals