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
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
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
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
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
A programme meant to allow pharmacists and nurses working at private pharmacies to prescribe HIV treatment or anti-HIV pills and jabs is on hold because of a drawn-out court case
Implementation trials start soon in South Africa to help researchers find out what will make people use a two-monthly anti-HIV jab
The Aurum Institute is making it easier for people to get HIV prevention medication
KwaZulu-Natal’s state facilities are in the lead when it comes to stocking HIV prevention medicines — 97% of them do — and the Western Cape is the only province where men use HIV prevention medicine more than women
Sex education will help prevent new HIV infections, expert says
Yvette Raphael describes herself as a ‘professional protester, sjambok feminist and hater of trash’. Government officials would likely refer to her as ‘a rebel’. She’s fought for equality her entire life, she says. And she’s scared of no one
Controlling Covid-19 may worsen Africa’s HIV epidemic by stopping state and civil society health services built up over 35 years
Sperm washing, assisted insemination and long hospital waits — if you were lucky. This is what pregnancy when you were HIV-positive used to look like
Bhekisisa editor Mia Malan talks to HIV scientist Salim Abdool Karim about his research on risky relationships of young women and older men.
Since the country’s national rollout, less than a quarter of people who’ve started taking PrEP are young women — despite high HIV rates among them.
Men who have sex with men can now safely use the HIV prevention pill before and after sex, instead of every day.
If you are a man who has sex with men, the HIV prevention pill just keeps getting better. Find out how.
Men who have sex with men can now take on-demand pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, safely.
This tablet can help to protect the country’s young women from contracting HIV.
Why would humanitarian workers support the call to decriminalize sex work? Sometimes bombs, floods aren’t the only threats to our patients.
Only some study participants have access to the tablet that can cut the risk of HIV infection by more than 90%.
A new injectable drug could change the face of HIV prevention and the revolution might start right here in South Africa.
PrEP is not a magic bullet. But we won’t end the HIV epidemic without it.
Peer educators spread the word about HIV prevention one little blue pill at a time
Mia Malan answers six important questions about the HIV prevention pill in three minutes.
What has been achieved since the International Aids conference was last held in Durban shows that extraordinary progress is possible.
An HIV prevention pill can reduce HIV-negative people’s chances of contracting HIV by more than 90%.
We know more than ever about how to prevent HIV infection, including what may someday lead to the world’s first HIV vaccine.
Being able to take a pill discreetly, as women have done with contraceptives since the 1950s, is an HIV prevention revolution.