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HIV made him expect to die at 40. At 73, Edwin Cameron asks: Who’s planning for our ageing survivors?
At 33, the retired Constitutional Court justice thought he had, maybe, seven years left. His story traces the arc from certain death because of Aids to a chronic, manageable…
Court orders government, police to block vigilantes from two clinics — and put up warnings at entrances
The judgment complements a November ruling meant to stop groups such as Operation Dudula from blocking foreign nationals from entering government hospitals and clinics and…
Building toilets, fighting TB: Candice Andisiwe Sehoma’s life of activism
From discontinued insulin pens to overpriced TB drugs, meet the young South African holding drug makers to account on behalf of patients
Clinics short-staffed after Pepfar funding cuts
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…
HIV research: Professor screw it, let’s do it
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
Fighting for funds: A new era of HIV activism
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…
Collapse of the health system must be reversed, says TAC
Bill which aims to provide universal care through a state-run fund is being reviewed by President Cyril Ramaphosa This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers.…
Activists welcome move to allow pharmacies to prescribe HIV, TB treatment
They say the ruling is in line with global trends
SA’s updated HIV treatment guidelines bring positive changes
ARV drug dolutegravir will become the go-to drug in all treatment plans next year. Here are 7 things you should know
How the Constitution changed the HIV/Aids epidemic’s trajectory in SA
Treatment Action Campaign and other civil society groups forced a reluctant Mbeki government to change its stance and roll out ARVs
TAC spends the night outside Makhura’s office in protest
Hundreds of Treatment Action Campaign members braved the Joburg cold to camp outside David Makhura’s office on Tuesday night, demanding Charlotte Maxeke Hospital reopens
Treatment Action Campaign demands Makhura fix Gauteng’s health system ‘mess’ now
The TAC wants the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital, closed after a fire in April, to reopen fully as soon as possible, because other hospitals are overburdened.
‘We only write about them when they are dead’: Hate killings of black lesbians in South Africa
In her book ‘Femicide in South Africa’, journalist and researcher Nechama Brodie examines the violent history the country’s black lesbians have endured
Affirming medicine as a public good
Medical science has developed hugely powerful technologies that can be used for social purposes. But to achieve this, it needs to be clearly on the side of the people
Why Covid likely won’t change the plight of community health workers
In the absence of action from the health department, South Africa’s community health workers are once again having to fight for their rights, with a nationwide strike planned…