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180 000 infections in 2024, 47 000 by 2045 — if SA rolls out the twice-a-year HIV prevention jab fast enough
The HIV prevention shot, lenacapavir, will be rolled out at South African clinics within the next couple of months and from 2027, the health department will also buy generics.…
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…
SA’s first batch of LEN jabs will arrive in February. Use Bhekisisa’s dashboard to find out who should get them
Who should get what slice of the pie once the medicine is available in public clinics? And are numbers alone what would drive decisions?
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…
Two drugmakers will sell the 6-monthly anti-HIV jab for the price of the daily prevention pill
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
People living with HIV in fear as impact of donor funding cuts begin to show in eSwatini
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…
Most people on ARVs stay on them. Does our health system know that?
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
SA gets R520 million to buy the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab – but there’s a snag
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
It’s the ‘Donald disease’ that’s making us sick
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…
The proportion of people 50+ with HIV has doubled in 10 years
Today, people over 50 make up the second largest group of South Africa’s HIV-positive population — 20 years ago, they were the smallest proportion
How the health department will deal with Pepfar’s near collapse
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…
Local economy reels from police blockade of Stilfontein mine
Illegal miners want the state to legalise their operations as it is the only way for them to earn a living
Popping into your local pharmacy for anti-HIV pills and jabs could help slow new infections. So why is it not allowed in SA?
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
Not easy to track how well South Africa is doing with getting people on to ARVs
The world has 18 months left to reach targets that all United Nations member countries signed up to in 2021
GGA webinar series: The SA 2020 Scenarios Project
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