Global Fund To Fight Aids
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More HIV funding cuts are coming for SA. This time it’s a slow fade, but with clear risks
The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria will start to cut its grant support to South Africa in just two years, with its final grant ending in eight years. Some…
SA wants to make its own six-monthly HIV prevention jabs by 2027. But there’s a hitch
None of the companies that will be involved have a licence from the inventor of Lenacapavir, Gilead Sciences, to make the jab
Close the global healthcare gap: Solutions for a more equitable future
A comprehensive, multi-sector approach would help medical care in emerging countries catch up with those in more established nations
WATCH: Could new abortion rules in the US affect the world’s biggest state HIV fund?
The US government has appointed the first African head of its Aids fund, Pepfar. John Nkengasong, a Cameroonian virologist
Let the people lead if responses to tackle HIV are to be effective
A leading Kenyan public health and community-based health care specialist knows the importance of local level involvement, particularly for epidemics and pandemics
How Zambia is beating malaria
A decade ago, most countries used only localised strategies. But Zambia decided to make bed nets, insecticides, and drugs available nationwide.
State’s ‘bad administration’ could force TAC to close its doors
The Treatment Action Campaign faces closure due to a lack of funds, which it claims is primarily due to bad administration at the health department.
Fund affirms Africa’s success in Aids fight
Africa has had ”extraordinary success” in the fight against HIV/Aids, according to the director of the Global Fund to Fight Aids.
Aids group nixes new funds for Zimbabwe
An aid agency has decided against giving new healthcare funds to Zimbabwe to fight HIV/Aids until the country’s central bank returns -million.