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The theme for World Health Day is ‘healthy beginnings, hopeful futures’ and aims to encourage governments to take actions to reduce mothers’ deaths during pregnancy and childbirth.

This drug could save 25 000 women’s lives but could it cost them their babies?

Take a look at the newest HIV treatment set to hit South Africa’s shores in 2019.

Laura López González
Bhekisisa Team

Two doses of PrEP before sex and one tablet every day for 48 hours works just as well as everyday use in gay men and other men who have sex with men. (Morgana Wingard, MSF)

Why two pills before and after sex could help to save you from HIV

Men who have sex with men can now take on-demand pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, safely.

Mia Malan
Bhekisisa Team

Another study confirms that HIV-positive people on treatment and with very low levels of the virus in their blood can’t transmit HIV. (Siphiwe Sibeko, Reuters)

You can’t transmit HIV if you take ARVs correctly and are virally suppressed

Researchers once again confirmed: It’s impossible for HIV-positive people on treatment to transmit the virus through sex — this time among gay men.

Mia Malan
Bhekisisa Team