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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (on screen), director general of the World Health Organisation, delivers a message to the multi-stakeholders hearing on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases and the promotion of mental health and wellbeing. Photo: UN/Loey Felipe
ALCOHOL REGULATION

The UN had a plan to fight deadly lifestyle diseases. Industry pressure killed most of it

At the UN General Assembly high-level meeting in New York next week, South Africa is expected to join other countries in signing a watered down declaration meant to curb diseases…

  • Zano Kunene
10 min read
The impact of the Trump administration’s slashing of over half of South Africa’s HIV and TB projects funded by the US government, transcends reduced access to HIV testing and HIV prevention and treatment drugs. Treatment for diabetes, high blood pressure, cervical cancer, depression and anxiety will become harder to come by too. (Flickr)
ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY

Trump’s HIV funding cuts will also hit diabetes, cervical cancer and depression hard

As government clinics take on HIV patients who were previously treated by Pepfar-funded projects, the treatment of conditions like diabetes and heart disease will come under…

  • Zano Kunene
10 min read
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 people now closed. (File photo)
AGEING WITH HIV
Video

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

  • Linda Pretorius
  • Jacques Verryn
8 min read
What’s the secret of Kigali’s car-free day longevity? Photo: Global NCD Alliance Forum
CAR FREE SUNDAYS

A breath of fresh air: How Kigali’s car-free Sundays keep people moving

The city’s car-free day is going into its ninth year, far outlasting most initiatives like it around the world, including in South Africa

  • Zano Kunene
6 min read
Professor Ntobeko Ntusi, SAMRC President and CEO.
DOCTOR TO PATIENT RATIO

The state of health in South Africa: Reflections and future directions

While progress has been made in some sectors, there are critical gaps in the healthcare infrastructure

  • Professor Ntobeko Ntusi
4 min read
The cash-strapped power utility appears not to have vetted a company for tax compliance. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
AIR POLLUTION

Put health at heart of climate agenda

Climate action will help avert ‘the biggest threat to humanity’, say global health organisations

  • Marcia Zali
3 min read
Up to one in five people can get long COVID — a condition in which someone keeps on feeling ill for months after their initial symptoms have cleared up. (Paul Botes)
SAVEMYLIVELIHOOD

‘Jobs vs health’: What will shape public-health policies after Covid-19?

Comorbidities, particularly noncommunicable diseases have been put into the spotlight during the Covid-19 pandemic. How we approach preventing NCDs in the future will depend on…

  • Yandisa Ngqangashe
6 min read