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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…
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…
At 16, he mediated a highjacking. Now he’s negotiating for the survival of HIV programmes
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…
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
Small win for activists, but SA’s HIV projects won’t reopen
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…
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
Dangerous fantasy: US ambassador Dybul said SA was ready to transition off Pepfar. It wasn’t
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
Motsoaledi’s big HIV treatment jump: Is it true?
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
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…
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…
The case of the minister and the HIV activists: Are we entering denialism 2.0?
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 cost of neglect: Debt’s toll on African health systems
The US withdrawal will reveal the underlying truth: African health systems have long been undermined by debt and political neglect.
The six-monthly anti-HIV jab could end Aids in SA by 2032
A modelling study released in March gives a clue at which price the jab, lenacapavir, would be worth the health department’s while
Trump’s cuts show the need to democratise reproductive health funding
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
Trump’s funding cuts hit HIV, GBV services hard
The US president’s cutting of financial support has cut life-saving treatment for many in SA