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 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…
Ndiviwe Mphothulo, a medical doctor and president of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, is trying to make sure the Trump administration’s funding cuts don’t collapse…
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
The $400 million the United States congress removed from a list of funding programmes the Trump administration wants to cut doesn’t cancel the cuts to HIV and TB programmes made…
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
Weeks later, thousands of health workers are unemployed, HIV services are collapsing and the government hasn’t filled the gap. This isn’t transition, it’s unraveling in real time
Last month, the health minister said more than half a million previously diagnosed people with HIV have been started on treatment since the end of February
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…
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…
Activists say the health minister is in denial over the impact of US funding cuts and accusing them and the media of overblowing the crisis and spreading disinformation
The US withdrawal will reveal the underlying truth: African health systems have long been undermined by debt and political neglect.
A modelling study released in March gives a clue at which price the jab, lenacapavir, would be worth the health department’s while
Sources that are unrestricted, aligned with South African law and human rights, and without political interference, must be found as an alternative to the US
The US president’s cutting of financial support has cut life-saving treatment for many in SA
A federal judge has enforced a temporary restraining order blocking Donald Trump from freezing federal grants
Such programmes still qualify for a limited waiver, which will expire towards the end of April, but only for approved activities
The US government has appointed the first African head of its Aids fund, Pepfar. John Nkengasong, a Cameroonian virologist
